Talking of which, I loved this quote from @DontSailBackwards *Chrome has a bug, missing a feature - wait a week or get a plugin. IE has a bug, missing a feature. erm, ummmmmm, ahhhhh. ahem. Abandon it.* http://www.twitter.com/DontSailBackwds/status/47755015594573824
-Burela On 16 March 2011 11:23, Grant Molloy <[email protected]> wrote: > With Chrome v10 they've now got a whole heap of extensions (and games) > readily available in their Chome Web Store.. > > https://chrome.google.com/webstore?hl=en-US > > Almost 800 under the "Developer Tools" tag, including the very handy > Firebug Lite > > https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bmagokdooijbeehmkpknfglimnifench?hl=en-US > <https://chrome.google.com/webstore?hl=en-US> > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Winston Pang <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> > >> > >> > >
