Sensible Erection | Can IE not suck?

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

quote [ IE9 has "HTML5 through and through," Hachamovitch said, as well as support for CSS3 and for showing SVG 1.1 imagery inline. Hachamovitch's demo shows H.264-encoded HTML5 video, and he said that graphics such as maps are vastly more sophisticated with SVG support. ]

Well I'll be damned.

via /.

Technologizer review:

http://technologizer.com/2010/03/16/ie9-platform-preview/

Ars Technica coverage:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/platform-preview-gives-web-developers-first-taste-of-ie9.ars

Very early alpha download:

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

[by foobar@6:38pmGMT] [+1 Informative]

Comments

Jewbacchus said @ 6:56pm GMT on 16th Mar
Isn't today some kind of holiday?

sensibleb said @ 7:04pm GMT on 16th Mar [Score:1 Funny]
I don't know, but yesterday was Steak and Blowjob Day. I had a delicious top sirloin with sauteed porcini mushroom risotto, grilled aubergine and a robust 2004 Malbec. Then I sucked dicks until sunrise.

Jewbacchus said @ 7:06pm GMT on 16th Mar
hmm. No.

arteitle said @ 10:50pm GMT on 16th Mar
Peter Mayhew Day?

Jewbacchus said @ 10:52pm GMT on 16th Mar
I'm pretty sure that's it. Is it PM day? Does anyone know if it's PM day?

Chop-Logik said @ 5:58am GMT on 17th Mar
Check your <~PMs.

Supreme_Coconut said @ 7:01pm GMT on 16th Mar [Score:4 Underrated]

Bodnoirbabe said @ 4:50am GMT on 17th Mar [Score:1 Funny]
I am an idiot. I sat here for a few minutes thinking that the white bucket was awfully far out in front and wondered how he was going to reach it to drum on.

damnit said @ 6:58am GMT on 17th Mar
You're not alone. I made the same mistake when I saw this video a while back. I thought he was going to throw his drumsticks at it.

jaxtraw said @ 7:03pm GMT on 16th Mar
It might suck in a standards-compliant way perhaps?

todde said @ 7:05pm GMT on 16th Mar
It is possible for IE to not suck.
It might bite.

crom said @ 7:06pm GMT on 16th Mar [Score:2 Insightful]
This is mostly just hot air from Microsoft PR. I'm pretty sure they said IE 8 was going to not suck too. And every release prior to that.

I'll believe it when when I see it not sucking.

symmetrian said @ 7:11pm GMT on 16th Mar [Score:1 Informative]
WHAT IS THIS DOT SLASH

symmetrian said @ 11:28pm GMT on 17th Mar
Shit, you fixed it. Now I make no sense.

rndmnmbr said @ 8:37pm GMT on 16th Mar
It won't stop sucking until I can install Adblock+.

clumsy_juggler said @ 10:05pm GMT on 16th Mar
So in other words IE9 is going to support the standards that all the other browsers on the market currently support. Funny how MS spins catching up to the rest of the market as big news.

phlegm said @ 11:53pm GMT on 16th Mar
If they can do that AND maintain backwards compatibility with their old broken-ass standard, that will be new trick.

Why you'd want that sort of compatibility:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html

clumsy_juggler said @ 12:13am GMT on 17th Mar
If they manage to add SVG support I will be impressed. Your linked article reminds me of the old saying "Standards are great, there are so many to choose from."

plexer said @ 6:19am GMT on 17th Mar
If they manage FULL SVG support I'll be impressed. Apparently they've implemented < 20% so far. That doesn't really help anyone.

foobar said @ 7:06am GMT on 17th Mar
How much does Firefox/webkit support? It isn't 100%.

Spaceloaf said @ 10:49pm GMT on 16th Mar
Has anyone tried out the D2D-accelerated alpha of FireFox?

EPT said @ 11:30pm GMT on 16th Mar
I can't wait for ten years from now when all the OSs and browsers have feature-merged into the one single entity...

Polyphemus said @ 4:57am GMT on 17th Mar
Skynet?

structured_spirits said @ 7:40am GMT on 17th Mar [Score:1 Funny]
No.

bystander said @ 7:34am GMT on 19th Mar
So IE9 supports the COMPLETE HTML 5 standard... that isn't yet published on http://www.w3.org

Sound like MS is trying to co-opt yet another industry standard, claiming that their take on it is right by virtue of being commercialized first.

Wait 'till it's finalized, THEN run benchmarks against the competing browsers. Anything else is just hype, or (if honest) a statement of intent.

bystander said @ 7:38am GMT on 19th Mar
Seems I'm stating the obvious:

Poll: Is IE9 enough?
Many have switched from IE over the years. Will Microsoft's IE9 preview draw you back into the fold?

Over my dead body. 38.0%
Only if IE9 delivers on the promises. 35.4%
Come back? I never left. 15.0%
Yes, Microsoft cares about the Web again. 11.6%
Total votes: 5386