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Geek Culture / Internet Explorer 9 Beta Released!

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Posted: 18th Sep 2010 00:57
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http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

So, what do you guys think of it? Nice look, no errors that I've found so far. The theme might look like a copy of chrome, tho, but that's just me.

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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 18th Sep 2010 01:04
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It's IE. Therefore any other browser except SlimBrowser is superior...

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David R
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Posted: 18th Sep 2010 01:10 Edited at: 18th Sep 2010 01:19
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Meh.

At least they've seen sense and started chasing standards rather than stupid IE-only features though.

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Posted: 18th Sep 2010 01:14
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I'm interesting in checking out the hardware accelerated browsing.


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Posted: 18th Sep 2010 01:41
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Safari 5 already has hardware acceleration.

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Zeus
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Posted: 18th Sep 2010 01:47
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Nice beta and IE is really improving but I will always stick to Google Chrome, I love Google Chrome!
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I tried to install it earlier, but then they told me I needed to download a whole bunch of Win 7 updates and I really couldn't be bothered.

So I looked at an image, and I don't like the way they've put the address bar and tabs on the same level. I'll stick to Firefox.

Chrome is OK, but I'm an interface person. I need buttons and bars and pretty pictures.


I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my bum.
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David R
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Posted: 18th Sep 2010 15:33 Edited at: 18th Sep 2010 15:35
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Quote: "Safari 5 already has hardware acceleration."


But only on Windows, which somewhat defeats the object of it

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Quote: "But only on Windows, which somewhat defeats the object of it"

I use Safari on Windows, and so do a few others that I know.

However, I do find it surprising that it doesn't work with Mac.

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Posted: 18th Sep 2010 15:41 Edited at: 18th Sep 2010 15:42
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Quote: "I use Safari on Windows, and so do a few others that I know."


Nah, I mean the fact Moz and Google are implementing cross-platform layers for their HW accel is going to leave Safari behind quite a bit. That and the fact Safari actively targets >1 platform. IE can get away with Windows-only features because MS don't care about portability

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Posted: 18th Sep 2010 18:13
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I'm upset that it won't work on XP

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Posted: 18th Sep 2010 19:11 Edited at: 18th Sep 2010 19:11
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Quote: "I'm upset that it won't work on XP "

That's one thing I was surprised by. I guess compatability with XP is gonna be shot down completely someday, but maybe it's just a beta thing.

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Posted: 18th Sep 2010 19:15
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IE sucks

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intelligent addition to the conversation

I found it was actually quite slow, and a lot of websites still refused to load in IE and ran perfectly in Chrome

Its undoubtful that when the full release comes out they'll go on about HTML5 and CSS3 like it was invented yesterday, whilst in actual fact every other browser has had it for millenia

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IE 9 is pretty good. It's faster than Firefox, and (IMO) looks better than Chrome.

It's a beta though, so it still has some issues:

-Menus not always showing up correctly (Even on Zune.net!)
-Buttons sometimes not visible
-Occasional freeze-ups.

Once these problems are fixed it could become my preferred browser.

The hardware acceleration is pretty awesome:

http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/

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Posted: 19th Sep 2010 02:13
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How can something look better than chrome? There's nothing to see.


I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my bum.
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