Blogging IE9: A Year in Review

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yao — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:46:11 GMT

instalation

re: Blogging IE9: A Year in Review

Zoom Bug — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:04:04 GMT

when zooming on this page en.wikipedia.org/.../Tsunami no horizontal scrollbar appears and images (formulas) are not shown completely ....

also when i zoom back using Ctrl + 0 or Ctrl + - the position of the page changes which is very annoying ....

please fix them before the release and thanks for the IE9 ...

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Daniel — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:03:50 GMT

This sites that checks features are bogus... run them in sequence and you will see that some say that IE9 does not have feature X and others say thar IE9 have the feature X....

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Stilgar — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:35:59 GMT

If Microsoft declares SL dead because of some bullshit Google propaganda I will switch from .NET to another technology and from Windows to another OS despite not having any investment in SL. This is no way to treat developers and customers. What is more SL kicks web tech's (html + js) butt. The only problem is that competitors won't adopt it.

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Aethec — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:14:50 GMT

@meni >> I (and many other people) will bet whatever you want that Silverlight (or Flash) is far more productive than HTML/CSS/JS and allows for waaaaay more things.

I still don't understand why you like WebGL. It's a layer on top of OpenGL. Why on Earth would a standard need a specific implementation? That's like saying everyone should adopt MS's DirectX filters.

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meni — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:12:44 GMT

hannsg, exactly! Imagine the web today had MS adopted SVG instead of VML back in 2000. VML went nowhere, waste of everyone's time. Also imagine had Microsoft declared "we love and support standards" back then. In any case this is over (it will take a year or so to flush out all traces of that period...).

The problem is today! Microsoft should unambiguously say "we love open standards and we want to inter-operate", even if conflicts with other technology they have. Push now for a quick microphone and webcam standards. Support WebGL and all the specs that do what Flash and Silverlight do. Declare SL really dead (as a Flash competitor), so all the fanboys will agree and see the light.

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hannsg — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:32:59 GMT

Too bad you guys didn't do all of this right after IE 6 instead of declaring victory, closing up shop and stopping development on what is currently the most important type of program in the World. But hey, I guess the Xbox is doing ok, so it was worth it.

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Jane — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:54:28 GMT

@Tim Windows XP is like IE6 -- a decade old system that should have been left behind a long time ago, both for features and security. Besides, the "service pack" you are talking about would have to change the whole graphics subsystem, requiering new drivers, and in effect be almost like upgrading halfway to Vista.. If an org would be willing to go through that, why not rather upgrade directly to Win7?

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Tim Acheson — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:35:28 GMT

Hi guys, please listen. It's essential that you provide an IE9 installer for Windows XP. If necessary make it dependent on a new service pack! People aren't buying the excuses about the OS. Many of us remember IE4 which completely overhauled the OS. The executives behind this strategy must sit in an ivory tower, where everybody in the organisation uses Windows 7. It's not like that in the outside world. This will be a momentous missed opportunity.

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S_Kelly1 — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:03:10 GMT

It would be extreemely useful for IE9 to have Font Rendering. If this made available, I am certain that a number of developers would apreciate it.