I'm not too excited with IE anymore regardless. Developer tools are still ass. Release cycles are still too long, yeah sure they might be a step ahead now with perf, but meh, in a matter of months the other competitors will chase up and surpass IE.
Although the UI for IE9 is a lot simplified and they've reduced redundant crap, but chrome still kicks ass at simplifying it even more. Firefox still rips both apart with extensions. MS really needs to work on a few things, better dev tools, easier extensibility so more add-ons can be developed by others, faster and more frequent releases. On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Scott Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > I for one am luke warm to the new version of WPF ..err.. I mean IE9... :) > hehehe (sorry couldn't resist). > In all honesty this browser doesn't do it for me (ies good, just not > something i'm excited about), maybe I'm to used to Chrome now to give it up > but overall I just don't see its value as much. I also am sceptical if the > IE + Windows team can keep this browser pure before it forks to a Windows > specific feature set (which isn't bad if you derive from the .NET bloodlines > but it backfire as a brand again - assuming its managed to claw its way out > of the IE6 brand focused hate debt). > > > --- > Regards, > Scott Barnes > http://www.riagenic.com > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Grant Maw <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Agreed. So far it looks to me like MS may finally have gotten it right. >> >> On 15 March 2011 18:52, Stephen Liedig <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Dispite all the negative comments so far on this list, I think IE9 is a >>> huge improvement on previous versions, and its fast, faster than anything >>> out there at the moment. But hey, that's just my opinion ;-) >>> >>> >>> On 15 March 2011 03:48, David Burela <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> The final release Internet Explorer 9 is now >>>> available http://beautyoftheweb.com >>>> Go download it. >>>> Thoughts? >>>> I'm wondering if we'll start seeing smaller point releases (IE 9.5) as >>>> things get standardized. There has been a lot of talk about the release >>>> schedules of competing browsers (Firefox, Chrome). >>>> -David Burela >> > >
