Internet Explorer 9 Beta

[Grippz]

I will give it a try but I can't see it beating Chrome tbh!

[HotelUser]

I love the fact people are dismissing IE9, even though it's meant to follow webstandards better than some other major browsers... all I can say is LOL at you guys.

On the basis of how awful every single one of its predecessors was I don't blame them.

[AgnesIO]

I love the fact people are dismissing IE9, even though it's meant to follow webstandards better than some other major browsers... all I can say is LOL at you guys.

Cant rep you again, but spot on Tom. People should give it a chance

[xxMATTGxx]

On the basis of how awful every single one of its predecessors was I don't blame them.

You could say that about their Windows Vista though in your eyes. You hate Windows Vista so you going to automatically hate Windows 7 too? No it doesn't work like that. You have to give each version a try, if it's still crap like the older versions then fair enough but you haven't even tried it out yet.

[AgnesIO]

You could say that about their Windows Vista though in your eyes. You hate Windows Vista so you going to automatically hate Windows 7 too? No it doesn't work like that. You have to give each version a try, if it's still crap like the older versions then fair enough but you haven't even tried it out yet.

Totally agree. I don't think the first Macintosh computer was brilliant. Yet you have an iMac David?

Just because old things from companies are not very good, does not mean the new versions are.

I use Safari, however I will try IE9 - if it is good I will maybe go back to it.

[Stephen!]

With IE9, developers have a fully-hardware accelerated display pipeline that runs from their markup to the screen. Based on their blog posts, the hardware-accelerated implementations of other browsers generally accelerate one phase or the other, but not yet both. Delivering full hardware acceleration, on by default, is an architectural undertaking. When there is a desire to run across multiple platforms, developers introduce abstraction layers and inevitably make tradeoffs which ultimately impact performance and reduce the ability of a browser to achieve ‘native’ performance. Getting the full value of the GPU is extremely challenging and writing to intermediate layers and libraries instead of an operating system’s native support makes it even harder. Windows’ DirectX long legacy of powering of the most intensive 3D games has made DirectX the highest performance GPU-based rendering system available.

When you run other browsers that support hardware acceleration, you’ll notice that the performance on some of the examples from the IE Test Drive site is comparable to IE9 yet performance on other examples isn’t. The differences reflect the gap between full and partial hardware acceleration. As IE supports new, emerging Web standards, those implementations will also be fully hardware accelerated.

Hardware acceleration of HTML5 video is a great example. At MIX10, we showed the advantage of using hardware for video. In March, IE9 played two HD-encoded, 720p videos on a netbook using very little of the CPU while another browser maxed out the CPU while dropping frames playing only one of the videos. Because of full hardware acceleration of the entire pipeline, you experience great performance playing these videos while moving them around the page and styling and compositing them with opacity, using web standard markup.

I tried those tests on various other browsers. IE9 left those other browsers in the dust. Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. do not fully utilize the capabilities of the GPU like IE9. IE9 runs circles around other browsers in terms of GPU performance.

Interesting

[Recursion]

You could say that about their Windows Vista though in your eyes. You hate Windows Vista so you going to automatically hate Windows 7 too? No it doesn't work like that. You have to give each version a try, if it's still crap like the older versions then fair enough but you haven't even tried it out yet.

To add on, people only disliked Vista because it was a change though, which funilly enough, no matter how much people complained carried through to W7 for the better.

Looking forward to IE9 personally, I'm hoping it'll be a huge improvement (it looks to be) and will be rolling it out throughout school when it comes out of BETA too.

[TonyBest]

When its out in beta im going to download and test the difference between chrome, ie9 and even firefox to see which is fasterr. If IE9 is going to be faster then i might move back to it. but only if its faster

[Stephen!]

Yeah, well don't judge it from the beta because, well it's beta.

[TonyBest]

Yeah i know that, im not quick to judge just cuz a few bugs happen on the beta, like im already using Firefox 4.0 Beta 5 and its working fine