Updates for Internet Explorer 9 Beta

re: Updates for Internet Explorer 9 Beta

username — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:17:41 GMT

re: Updates for Internet Explorer 9 Beta

David — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 02:58:57 GMT

Why can't you guys get this right scrap this peice of crap start over ... still displaying simple css wrong, still has the poorest excuse for development tools in the market ... WOW ... you stay over promising and over delivering with this browser ... Is the fact that the OS market system will default users to this that seems to cause microsoft to continually develop and inferior solution ??????????? fix it plz

re: Updates for Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Thomas — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:50:18 GMT

I've installed version 7 of the platform preview on Windows 7 x64 machine. (8GB RAM, Pentium Dual Core 3.2GHz). Now I realize that I won't the the same absolute performance number, but in every case that I've tested, it is MUCH slower than GC 7.0.517.44. A case in point, on the HTML5 Sudoku solving 5000 games in GC takes 1.900 seconds, in PP7 it takes 30.628 seconds. Now on my laptop (Core 2 Dual @ 2ghz, 4GB RAM, Windows 7x64) the time are quite a bit different. For GC 6.993 seconds and PP7 1.382 seconds. Is there really that much processor specific optimazation in the Platform preview?

re: Updates for Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Alan — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:28:40 GMT

Beta IE9 For many mistakes yet. I think they should correct enough to reach a beta and so much more to the final

re: Updates for Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Alan — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:27:46 GMT

IE9 Beta For many mistakes yet. I think they should correct enough to reach a beta and so much more to the final

re: Updates for Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Aethec — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:55:48 GMT

@drd >> It seems a lot of people think web apps are some magical thing that will save the world. When I look at CSS and HTML "added features", all I see is a reduced list of WPF/Silverlight features, but maybe that's just me...

re: Updates for Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Real McCoy — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:50:07 GMT

@Erwin Ried, that is a very reasonable thing to have in the next-generation web-browser. Please submit the feedback by pressing Alt+x+k or from connect website. They would entertain the feedback in some weeks (in my case it took 8 weeks before they made a first comment; coz there are over 4800 active feedback posts on connect, out of which more than 3000 are submitted in the last 1 or 2 months). Please let me know the connect link once you are done, i would also support your opinion (may be that little support prevents it going under "Done (as in rejected) - By design" and they reconsider it !!) :D \m/

Also, do you think something like this-> ( connect.microsoft.com/.../suggestion-for-ie9s-addressbar-and-title-of-the-webpage ) gonna get entertained?

re: Updates for Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Marcus_Z — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:44:25 GMT

but can anyone tell me when the beta2 will be released? this week or next week ?

re: Updates for Internet Explorer 9 Beta

drd — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:40:34 GMT

Lets make a list of good and bad things about IE9 as of today:

Good:

- Flying cows perform well with latest Discrete graphics cards.

- Certain fonts look better if large enough

Bad:

- To use tabs you now need to upgrade display to wide screen and use it maximized

- To use address bar you also need to upgrade display to wide screen and use it maximized

- Certain popular fonts at popular sizes are horribly rendered on common DPI displays (it seems for <150 DPI displays exceptions need to be made for these fonts)

- Quite a lot of sites that work in IE8 now work worse in IE9 even in IE8 doc mode or don't work at all

- People who play Flying cows don't mind taking 5 seconds to install a native app that performs 10x better or more. Even in best case unrealistic benchmarks JS is 4+x slower than Intel C++ compiled code on Intel processors. So instead of running at say 4 Ghz your new computer performs same tasks like 1 Ghz from ~10 years ago, except now in a browser. Woo hoo. And that's in the best case! In reality stuff in browser runs like a dog with two legs amputated when compared to a native machine code.

re: Updates for Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Adaminvegas67 — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:55:40 GMT

Wow, see all this complaining, I started using IE9 Beta the day it was released and have not used another browser since. It works great on my AMD 64 running windows 7 64 bit. Also works great with my Nvidia graphics card. I've had a few pages crashes sure. But the performance boost has been killer. The only problem I've seen is that occassionally it would remain running even after the windows were closed. And I'd like to see settings allowing us to set how much vid ram on the card it can use. I think many have forgotten that this browser uses your graphics chips to offload the rendering work. Those with onboard graphics might see little enhancement or slow down. The onboard graphics on my system even though they were Nvidia were pitiful which is why I bought a stand alone card. I just wish I could make the 64 bit version the default, I love it!!!