Congrats to the IE team for getting back on the rails!
More competition in this area is a bonus - now we just have to ensure that microsoft continues to sound out valid reasoning to get the vast proportion of Enterprise that still is on IE6 updated (and thus shift their legacy apps from proprietary hacks to a far more future "proofed" (resistant really) standards base).
Using hardware acceleration in a contrived example, IE 9 is faster at rendering fish. Yawn. Nothing Microsoft does now can make up how awful IE 6,7, and 8 are and the fact that most of my day-to-day pain is caused by supporting their crap-tastic browsers. Even IE 8 leaks memory like a sieve.
"Using hardware acceleration in a contrived example, IE 9 is faster at rendering fish."
It's not a contrived example, as someone already pointed out.
"Nothing Microsoft does now can make up how awful IE 6,7, and 8 are and the fact that most of my day-to-day pain is caused by supporting their crap-tastic browsers. Even IE 8 leaks memory like a sieve."
I don't think this example is contrived. I can imagine plenty of use cases where being able to draw lots of objects is really important. Hardware acceleration is exactly what HTML5 needs in order to compete with Flash.
Look, I really dislike Microsoft, but we're not allowed to discuss why on HN. :-) However, IE9 really can catapult the Internet to the next level by being highly standards compliant and having great performance. Let's give them credit on this one. Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera competing against a strong contender from Microsoft is a great thing.
What's frustrating to me is that they could fix the problem of high usage of old IE versions. They just seem to be unwilling to.
They could add in IE7's and IE8's rendering engines into IE9 as compatibility modes, push out IE9 as a forced or automatic update and have HTML5 ready to use in a few weeks. But they seem to be more worried potential whining from update-averse users than holding back the technological progress of the entire internet.
Pretty cool, now we only need to bring hw accel to linux and firefox :). My main browser will allways be a open one since we really shouldnt trust corporations in keeping the we open.
In the Mr Potato head example video demo Chrome has 25fps before you click anything i.e. just displaying a static canvas doesn't get up to the 60fps seen for IE9. It also returns to only 25fps after everything stops moving again after you shoot the gun.
I thought that was a bit strange, so I tried to reproduce it. In the live demo the fps meter only appears after you fire the gun, and (apparently) stops with the last value after the items stop moving.
It's one of those things that you don't want to be true... But there it is. Ben Parr was at a press event today for IE9 and confirmed to Mashable staff that, according to the tests, IE9 is gonna be hella fast.
It's a good thing that all other browsers have stopped development. Or maybe a better test would be comparing browsers with hardware acceleration against each other? Does anyone compare two games, one with hardware rendering and one with software rendering? No, of course not. That would be crazy.
[+] [-] jufemaiz|15 years ago|reply
More competition in this area is a bonus - now we just have to ensure that microsoft continues to sound out valid reasoning to get the vast proportion of Enterprise that still is on IE6 updated (and thus shift their legacy apps from proprietary hacks to a far more future "proofed" (resistant really) standards base).
[+] [-] postfuturist|15 years ago|reply
[+] [-] orlandu63|15 years ago|reply
It's not a contrived example, as someone already pointed out.
"Nothing Microsoft does now can make up how awful IE 6,7, and 8 are and the fact that most of my day-to-day pain is caused by supporting their crap-tastic browsers. Even IE 8 leaks memory like a sieve."
This is entirely irrelevant.
Why is this comment being upvoted?
[+] [-] phoboslab|15 years ago|reply
[+] [-] warfangle|15 years ago|reply
Wonder what the result would be if the video maker had tried using the WebGL extension... if this FishIE thing supports it.
[+] [-] melling|15 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] zweben|15 years ago|reply
They could add in IE7's and IE8's rendering engines into IE9 as compatibility modes, push out IE9 as a forced or automatic update and have HTML5 ready to use in a few weeks. But they seem to be more worried potential whining from update-averse users than holding back the technological progress of the entire internet.
[+] [-] cool-RR|15 years ago|reply
[+] [-] powrtoch|15 years ago|reply
"Internet Explorer 9 beats Chrome in hardware-accelerated canvas rendering, fails to beat several other browsers (video)".
Much better. But hey, gets less clicks right?
[+] [-] heresy|15 years ago|reply
Hmm, maybe I should switch the competition's product to use software rendering, and I'll use OpenGL/DirectX, for side-by-side comparisons.
Wow, I'm "destroying" my competition...
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[+] [-] jasonlotito|15 years ago|reply
It beat hardware accelerated chrome as well.
Firefox 3.7 actually came out on type by a bit in the end at a 1000 fish.
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[+] [-] Buzzzz|15 years ago|reply
//Anders
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[+] [-] ZeroGravitas|15 years ago|reply
I thought that was a bit strange, so I tried to reproduce it. In the live demo the fps meter only appears after you fire the gun, and (apparently) stops with the last value after the items stop moving.
What's going on there?
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