Comments on: Microsoft IE8 Comparison Chart – “Of course Internet Explorer 8 wins this one”

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:32:31 +0000

Speaking of Web Development. How can the niftiest Development Tool help you design your website if the browser that it’s made for does not render correctly in the first place?

Using Firefox with Firebug and the Web-Developer Plugin gives you great debugging tools that help you develop your site and safe time (which is consumed when you go make another version just for IE :o)

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:19:01 +0000

acid3.acidtests.org

See in numbers how bad IE is.

IE has a very bad rendering engine. As Ryan said, it is a mess to make your site look in IE like in other modern Browsers. Web designers have to pollute their code just to make their sites look good in IE (of course, people probably don’t care, but it costs money…)

With the above chart Micro$oft tries to conceal how much they got behind Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, YouNameIt, … They are loosing the fight and would be best off integrating Gecko or whatever other rendering engine into their product. THEN they may start arguing what great features they built on top of that.

We can be glad that their plan to sabotage the efforts of the w3c with CSS Killer IE6 went up in smoke and turned to be the reason why their market share now stagnates.

To name an alternative: Take Opera 10.10, it is such a nice browser. Also you can easily share fotos and other files with your friends in seconds! That should be a good reason for those of you, who “just want to go surf the web and don’t care”!

By: Danyal

Danyal — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:27:00 +0000

There’s always someone banging on about Opera.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:53:54 +0000

Good one, Jerry.

Google Chrome & Mozilla Firefox are the best browsers.
My favorite browser is Google Chrome.
I’m a web developer.
I test my sites using browsers like Chrome, Firefox,Opera,Safari,IE etc.
Mostly my site will work perfectly in all browsers, except IE.
IE causes wasting my whole day fixing specific IE errors.
I request Microsoft to stop IE.
And about their comparison chart : Laugh loudly and increase your life span.
Coming soon : Bing vs Google
Now Microsoft started lying too..!!
I hate IE !!

By: High End

High End — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:00:06 +0000

What about Opera? After years of being a “hardcore nerd” i use Opera for my general browsing. The features are so good. (Speed Dial?!)

Sure i have Firefox just incase there are some compatibility issues, but other then that Opera wins in every category as far as i’m concerned. Speed, Security, Ease of Use, and Reliability? Yes Sir. It’s great that microsoft now offer BOTH tab isolation and data recovery. Only over a year behind Opera?

I only felt the need to comment because of that outrageous chart. Normally i let people be happy with supporting the big companies offering sub-innovative products at excessive prices.

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:28:37 +0000

yea Andreas – they don’t care about mac :)

By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:13:42 +0000

Where is the comparison to Safari?

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:22:57 +0000

With props to Chrome for running java-based web apps faster, I’ve been using IE8 for a while now and for general browsing I find it the least irritating of the big 3 (IE8 java is like 4x faster than IE7 now, which does help a lot). Firefox takes for-freaking-ever to load and still crashes more than IE + there’s more basic plug-in crap to deal with (like Windows media compatibility – hellooo?). The security of FF and IE is comparable – those tired old claims that Firefox is more secure (unless you’re using NoScript on most pages) are just plain baloney. Firefox is great for super-extensibility but the large majority of people (all but the 8% who know what a browser is!) will be more irritated by Firefox or Chrome than by IE. They just want to quickly launch their “Google Browser” and facebook and online banking and get on with it.

Having said all that, that comparison chart is hilarious. It looks like someone at MS just roughed one out as a tongue-in-cheek draft and someone published it by accident.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:57:06 +0000

Oh, you don’t believe us? Next week we’ll throw at you another chart featuring Bing vs Google.

By: Dan Grossman

Dan Grossman — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:23:40 +0000

Don’t forget, only 8% of people in street testing can tell you what a browser is.

This will work just fine for them.