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According to W3C results, the only rival to come close to IE9 is Google Chrome 7.0.517.41 Beta, with a perfect score for compliance in four categories. Next in line are Firefox 4 Beta 6 and Opera 10.60 with 100% scores for three categories, while Safari 5.0.7533.16 sits at the bottom with the lowest HTML5 compliance level of all browsers – which is ironic considering Apple has been championing the new standard as a possible replacement for Adobe Flash.
| Feature | IE Platform Preview 6 | Chrome 7.0.517.41 beta | Firefox 4 Beta 6 | Opera 11.00 alpha (build 1029) | Safari 5.0.2 (6533.18.5) |
| attributes | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| audio | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| canvas | 89.55% | 80.6% | 75.32% | 85.35% | 86.16% |
| getElementsByClassName | 83.33% | 100% | 94.12% | 94.44% | 88.89% |
| foreigncontent | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% | 10% |
| video | 100% | 92.86% | 71.43% | 78.57% | 71.43% |
| xhtml5 | 100% | 42.86% | 85.71% | 100% | 42.86% |
The tests do not yet cover other aspects of the HTML5 spec such as web workers, the file API or local storage. Nevertheless it goes to show how much Microsoft’s attitude towards web standards has changed in recent months and that the company is ready to challenge IE’s reputation as the thorn in the side of web developers.
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Wow i do say .... i am trying out the IE9 beta and its a lot better than 8....its almost amazing although it has a few bugs I have run into, and sometimes security questions can get annoying....but as a main browser I use chrome...however i think they need to add more stuff to chrome...make it better to complete a browser...
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Good job MS! IE9 is here for the taking.
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lawfer said:
That's pretty impressive, I must admit. But...
These tests mean almost nothing, performance-wise. Which is exactly where IE is lacking. HTML5 compliance? Meh, that's just a matter of adapting to an still-in-development web standard.
But high performance and functionality? That's not that easy, now is it Microsoft?
i tested IE9 and it actually isn't that bad, it's slightly faster than the current non beta firefox and slower than the non beta chrome. i still like chrome because it is faster, but depending on the new features added to firefox and IE, i might switch to either.
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... b-but I don't want to code for IE9. QQ
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glad to see IE is coming back considering i haven't opened it in years except for the rarest occasions when they make me. i still think i will use chrome though. its just so user friendly and has a place in my heart now. its hard to switch and change everything.
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HaMsTeYr said:
I would love to see what ie can do to climb back up to the top, though I'd really like to see chrome overthrow that again, just for the fun of it. Competition is always good, not just in the GPU world lol
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The tests were incomplete and incorrect:
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The releases are just betas any way so when the actual versions are out these statistics are going to change anyway.Besides the kind of plugins i have in friefox makes me give a blind eye to these statistics anyway.People with firefox seem to have developed loyalty towards it.
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Regardless of any or all Compliance Levels, I've been spending more and more time on IE9B1, relegating my earlier secondary (i.e. Opera) to almost irrelevance. It's is a very fast, stable browser compared to earlier incarnations, and it has never crashed on me unlike FF4B6 which does this randomly. Only issue which I have with IE9B1 that they have placed tabs on the same level with address bar, limiting how much tabs one can actually open (especially on cramped notebook screen). I hope someone from MS will look into this and come up with something better.
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It seems that microsoft has finally focused on making IE better after all.
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Guest said:
@lawfur: you're right, these tests don't describe performance. But if you'd maybe read some performance reviews or try it out yourself before you spew unrelated garbage, you'd see IE9 is not "lacking" performance. In fact, quite the contrary.
@hassan: Platform Preview means the same as "stable release"? I musta missed that memo.
Uh oh. Did I press someone's button?
IE is lacking performance-wise, and functionality-wise. That's a fact. However, in perceivable performance, IE is not that different from Chrome or Firefox (perceivable performance is inaccurate since it will greatly vary on different systems; just like in certain systems Firefox is faster than Chrome, and vice-versa). That's why we measure in benchmark performance. In benchmark performance (test Sunspider, V8, Kraken, etc.), IE9 is still far behind the competition.
So next time, do the tests, read a little, and more importantly, read the numbers.
PS. It seems these HTML5 tests were false after all:
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www.html5test.com also shows how poorly IE9 does. Go there in IE9 and then go there in the other browsers.
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Puiu said:
i applaud the work they're putting into IE9 but for me FF is something i can't live without at the moment because of it's many useful extensions.
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matrix86 said:
CURSE YOU MICROSOFT!!! After 6 months i'm still deciding between Chrome or FF, and now you're actually making a useful IE...STOP IT! You're supposed to be the worse browser...that's the order of things, lol.
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CURSE YOU MICROSOFT!!! After 6 months i'm still deciding between Chrome or FF, and now you're actually making a useful IE...STOP IT! You're supposed to be the worse browser...that's the order of things, lol.
The tests it passed were hand picked. IE9 is still the pile of suck we are used to, compare IE9 on a real html5 test with other browsers and you will see.
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Microsoft is on their way to win the browser wars (again) by conforming with standards.
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Used to be an IE user then switched to Firefox and now Chrome. Im just hopping on the bandwagon on whichever's the best. If it's IE in a couple of months/years, then why not.
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