Velocity 2011: The Performance Impact of Modernizing Internet Explorer

re: Velocity 2011: The Performance Impact of Modernizing Internet Explorer

Olivier — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:17:57 GMT

@jader3rd : people do what they want with their computers. If you don't like anymore customizing everything, why people shouldn't be allowed to do it anyway ?

IE<=6 were great for that !

re: Velocity 2011: The Performance Impact of Modernizing Internet Explorer

jader3rd — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:49:22 GMT

@Daniel,

I'm going to have to disagree with you about customization. I remember when I first got my own computer (in 2000) I was all about customization and skinning. But then as time went on, I got over it. Especially as I started having a "home" computer and a "work" computer, and then helping out other people on their computers, the desire skin to my hearts content went away. Having not-in-your-face defaults is the way to go.

Plus, since IE 9 is all about "content, not chrome" why deal with custom skins when there shouldn't be one in the first place.

re: Velocity 2011: The Performance Impact of Modernizing Internet Explorer

@ Parrotlover77 — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:08:33 GMT

1. Try (temporarily) disabling addons to see if that helps.

2. Make note of the URLs and log bug(s) so that they actually looked at by the IE team.

re: Velocity 2011: The Performance Impact of Modernizing Internet Explorer

Parrotlover77 — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:30:15 GMT

I really like IE9 (with the exception of the stupid unified one bar thing), but I honestly have trouble seeing "real world" websites performing a whole lot different than IE8. New sites that take advantage of HTML5 and so on work great, but most sites aren't there yet. So, a lot of times when I'm visiting some random blog or whatever, the site absolutely crawls, especially if it has a lot of ads. Yet, in FireFox and Chrome, this doesn't happen. I'm guessing it's because it's working in an IE backward compatibility mode (a lot of times I can't tell because the "torn page" icon isn't visible).

So I think the forward looking features are great and in five to ten years, we'll all be glad the web works that way. But now that IE9 has some support for it now, I think more effort needs to be focused on getting HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0 sites (99.99% of the current web) to work at a better speed.

re: Velocity 2011: The Performance Impact of Modernizing Internet Explorer

Olivier — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:29:53 GMT

The presentation doesn't even works in IE8 :

"Message : Cet objet ne gère pas cette propriété ou cette méthode

Ligne : 53

Caractère : 13

Code : 0

URI : ie.microsoft.com/.../Presentation.js"

re: Velocity 2011: The Performance Impact of Modernizing Internet Explorer

@ dave — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:22:52 GMT

Dave, your mom is in front of the middle school to pick you up from band practice.

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dave — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:38:48 GMT

once again MSFT has ignored Ie7 and Ie8 and all users on Windows XP. How quickly they forget that for the last decade users stuck on IE have had the worst Internet experience possible all because MSFT decided to give up on developing IE for 5 years after the release of IE6 to ensure the Web could not grow.

Now that the web has grown without IE, users don't care about IE any more. Using Ie is not akin to using AOL - no one wants to use it or worse yet be seen using it.

The workforce has changed too - young adults entering the workforce have no interest in using IE and insist on using Chrome or Firefox.

the "blue e" will go down in history as necessary evil in history but no one wants it on their mobile phone, no one wants it on their laptop, and definitely not on their tablet.

Long live the Web! - without IE!

re: Velocity 2011: The Performance Impact of Modernizing Internet Explorer

asdf — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:50:21 GMT

This is a terrible demonstration of what html5 is about:

1. it doesn't fallback gracefully on older browsers

2. It can't even be viewed in lynx or indexed by search engines

3. it doesn't use anchors tags to show others what slide you're on or so you can get back to it with the back/forward buttons

4. it's all based on large images instead of text/css/svg

5. it preloads all the images instead of loading them on the fly

6. it pegs the CPU at 100% even when nothing is happening

7. it doesn't scale back special effects to maintain a fast experience

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Björn — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:27:05 GMT

Appendix: Prezi was the name of the website.

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Björn — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:26:03 GMT

Wow, very nice, that reminds me there was this interesting Flash-based presentation tool which could do turning in all directions and seemingly endless zooming, maybe someone could redo it in HTML5 now?