IE9 (for vista and Win7 only)

So I'm tooling around, and my computer keeps making this soft bing at me. I go poking around on various things trying to figure out what the hell is causing that. I noticed the update marker some time earlier, but didn't think that would cause it. I also didn't want to do updates while tooling around.

So I check it, and here it says IE9.



Greaaaaaat. Anyone remember IE7?

Well what the hell. I throw caution to the wind, and proceed to update.

Gotta shut everything down while updating, and it's suprisingly small for a complete browser upgrade.

After it gets done, IE now looks very much more streamlined.

I checked on tom's hardware, and apparently the design of this browser is such that it takes less processing power, and thus, allows laptops to run longer.



Okay... kind of counter to MS' bigger stronger more powerful mantra of years gone past, but if it works, it works. As long as I don't have to go in and redo how I save pictures.

(as a note, previous IE was set up in such a way that every time you brought up a new picture, it would offer to save in the default directory, instead of where you last saved it. I had to find a registry workaround to deal with that)



Couple of things to note, it's for win7 and vista only apparently. No more XP love. But that's fine. I still have IE6 on the older machine, and firefox for viewing sites that it chokes on.

One other thing to note, the testing that MS did on the browsers, they avoided using any flash or adobe add ons, or hitting up youtube.

Other thing to note, Firefox finished a close second behind the new browser. Chrome still sucks apparently.

I'll give this one a whirl, see how it works out, keep an eye out on bug and test sites.|||Quote:




One other thing to note, the testing that MS did on the browsers, they avoided using any flash or adobe add ons, or hitting up youtube.

Other thing to note, Firefox finished a close second behind the new browser. Chrome still sucks apparently.




Links to Microsoft tests? This seems very, very, very unlikely...|||Quote:








But that's fine. I still have IE6 on the older machine




AAAAAAAHHHHH!!

Do every web developer in the world a favor and save some kittens in the process: banish that horrible abomination.

Anyway, I very much welcome IE9. Finally MS has managed to deliver a browser with good performance and standards compliance. Too bad they'll probably lag behind as usual, with the slow release cycle.

And I would definitely be skeptical about tests done by MS themselves (or any browser maker). Case in point: http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/201...soft-svg-table.|||Quote:








I still have IE6 on the older machine





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Do every web developer in the world a favor and save some kittens in the process: banish that horrible abomination.




What he said.

Every time you open IE6 a website dies and mutates into a rotting mess of pseudo HTML, infecting the rest of the internet.

Get at least 7 or 8 if you need to use IE.

Or do you have some special "software" that was written for IE6?

(Serious question, some companies actually did write for IE6...)|||Quote:








Links to Microsoft tests? This seems very, very, very unlikely...




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

most tests are about using GPU hardware acceleration and the new Direct2D. I know it's implemented in Firefox 4 and IE9, not sure about Chrome and Opera.|||Quote:








AAAAAAAHHHHH!!

Do every web developer in the world a favor and save some kittens in the process: banish that horrible abomination.




We have IE6 on an old machine as well. We tried to update it. Machine almost died. So, we did a restore (thank you, Ghost!) IE6 will only be gone from that machine once we replace it with some new hardware...




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Anyway, I very much welcome IE9. Finally MS has managed to deliver a browser with good performance and standards compliance. Too bad they'll probably lag behind as usual, with the slow release cycle.




Too bad it only complicates my work even more... IE7, IE8, IE9, FF3.5 and FF4 (haven't really tested on chrome yet) all render differently and have different Javascript engines.|||Quote:








Firefox finished a close second behind the new browser. Chrome still sucks apparently.






Mmm. Terrible. </s>|||Quote:








We have IE6 on an old machine as well. We tried to update it. Machine almost died. So, we did a restore (thank you, Ghost!) IE6 will only be gone from that machine once we replace it with some new hardware...




Well, I actually don't care if it exists on a machine, as long as it's not used.


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Too bad it only complicates my work even more... IE7, IE8, IE9, FF3.5 and FF4 (haven't really tested on chrome yet) all render differently and have different Javascript engines.




Don't forget Opera and Safari.

I don't know what your work is, but in my case all modern browsers behave very much alike. Rarely do I need to spend more than a couple of minutes to fix something in each of them, if any at all. IE8 will possibly have some minor quirks, IE7 a few bigger problems and IE6 will require hours of additional work. The more people using modern versions the better, less quirks = less risk of fixes needed.|||Quote:








Well, I actually don't care if it exists on a machine, as long as it's not used.




It is used, mostly to get to IMDB.




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Don't forget Opera and Safari.

I don't know what your work is, but in my case all modern browsers behave very much alike. Rarely do I need to spend more than a couple of minutes to fix something in each of them, if any at all. IE8 will possibly have some minor quirks, IE7 a few bigger problems and IE6 will require hours of additional work. The more people using modern versions the better, less quirks = less risk of fixes needed.




It's mostly the javascript. And opera and safari aren't supported. We dropped IE6 support early last year, and by the end of this year, we'll drop IE7 support as well.