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Internet Explorer is the greatest browser ever!

This chart has been making its way around the interwebs, and it's more than just laughable. In fact, it's infuriating.

Claims like "Internet Explorer 8 passes more of the World Wide Web Consortium's CSS 2.1 test cases than any other browser... Microsoft made a big commitment to standards with Internet Explorer 8." absolutely piss me off. If you've ever used HTML and CSS, you know what a pain it is to develop for IE. You use proper html and css practices, and your page looks great in Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome. But what happens when you open it up in IE?

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU!

You rage! Because everything is screwed up. Not only that, it's screwed up differently in IE6 than it is in IE7, which is screwed up differently than IE8.

IE8 is not standards compliant. It still doesn't even render divs with min-height properly.

So here, Microsoft. This middle finger is for you.

Posted by Airjoe on Thursday, June 18, 2009 07:17PM - 12 comments (link) / Members say: yea +4, nay -0

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#12 Stephen001:

DivineTraveller wrote:
> That chart doesn't even include opera. Sad panda is me.

Or lynx. Where is the "Does it fit in an IBM terminal?" section, huh? It's because they know they can't possibly win that one.

Saturday, June 20, 2009 01:09AM

#11 DivineTraveller:

That chart doesn't even include opera. Sad panda is me.

Friday, June 19, 2009 01:07PM

#10 Stephen001:

SuperAntx wrote:
> What I find more frustrating is the fact that I just booted up IE to load a bunch of websites to see which one was faster. To my bitter disappointment, IE did in fact load pages about a third faster than Firefox.

With Firefox 3.0 that isn't too surprising. They made a lot of changes on how they use the cache, and so it slows stuff down quite a lot on the first hit for a given page.

Friday, June 19, 2009 06:43AM

#9 SuperAntx:

Most of those conditions are irrelevant, both were tested with the same websites and every time IE loaded faster. I didn't count startup times, but if I did IE would win again for obvious reasons.

Friday, June 19, 2009 06:22AM

#8 Jp:

SuperAntx wrote:
> What I find more frustrating is the fact that I just booted up IE to load a bunch of websites to see which one was faster. To my bitter disappointment, IE did in fact load pages about a third faster than Firefox.

Any sort of performance measurement of browsers is fraught with risks. What were the pages? What was on them? Different browsers will render all sorts of different content at different speeds. Their javascript engines will even execute different bits of javascript at different speeds, so different bits of javascript will have different profiles across browsers.

Do you consider startup time? But then IE gets an unfair advantage, because it's loaded as part of Windows from the start, whereas all of FF/Chrome/Safari/What-have-you have to be loaded when you boot the browser. What about browsing over time? Is IE still faster over the long haul? What about performance with tabs? Performance in low memory situations?

Performance metrics are /incredibly/ hard to collect in any meaningful way.

Friday, June 19, 2009 06:16AM

#7 SuperAntx:

What I find more frustrating is the fact that I just booted up IE to load a bunch of websites to see which one was faster. To my bitter disappointment, IE did in fact load pages about a third faster than Firefox.

Friday, June 19, 2009 06:08AM

#6 Jp:

> I also hate how they both display pages differently, due to I think firefox fixes some of the HTML or interprets it different. (I don't know.)
>

It's because IE doesn't interpret HTML or CSS correctly.

Friday, June 19, 2009 03:02AM

#5 Sun Knee:

People should only be using IE to download Firefox.

Friday, June 19, 2009 12:23AM

#4 IcewarriorX:

I find myself using different ones all the time because one never seems to cut it.

In truth though, this is what it all boils down to for me:

Firefox is easier to use than IE, but it's only easier to use because they built off of the same options/functions that IE used.

The main thing though, is that when you need to download plugins, firefox will usually tell me I'm missing a plugin, and then attempt & fail at installing it. Then you go to the manual install which still doesn't work. So you have to go to IE for things like shockwave etc...Firefox can make playing a simple arcade game a pain in the ass.

I also hate how they both display pages differently, due to I think firefox fixes some of the HTML or interprets it different. (I don't know.)

And then there's chrome, which won't even download for me.

Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:38PM

#3 DarkView:

Its the most compatible browser in existence. Nearly every piece of spyware, malware, virus, browser hijacker, keylogger, spambot on the planet works with Internet Explorer. Why even good old fashion fraud works better when the users main browser is set to Internet Explorer.

Thursday, June 18, 2009 09:26PM

#2 Jeff8500:

Lol, I love how high their self esteem is:

"Of course Internet Explorer 8 wins this one."

"make Internet Explorer 8 easiest to use." And that's an opinion, too, >_>

Thursday, June 18, 2009 08:13PM