thomas.tmc
2010-02-24 05:32:37 UTC
This isn't an anti IE rant, quite the opposite. I'm a developer and these are my frustrations in
seeing how the applications and interfaces I write perform in the other two major browsers,
Firefox 3.6 and Chrome 4 as opposed to how they (sort of) perform in IE 8.
I'm not talking about incompatibility whatsoever. It's not like I'm complaining about the lack of
the ability to use the <video> tag or something. I'm talking purely about the perfomance and
response times of totally IE compatible javascript applications.
The performance difference between IE 8 and the other two major browsers, Firefox and Chrome,
is staggering. I find I'm writing applications now that I know just won't work in IE 8, not because of
a lack of support, or a need for browser specific code, but because IE 8 will just slow to a crawl
even though the other major browsers handle it with ease.
IE is still the most used browser, and I'd like to be able to make sites that I know can function on it as
well as any other browser. The other option is just to dumb down the applications and interfaces to be
able to work on IE, in essence moving backwards.
I'd like to see a much improved javascript engine in IE 9 and a much faster development cycle.
seeing how the applications and interfaces I write perform in the other two major browsers,
Firefox 3.6 and Chrome 4 as opposed to how they (sort of) perform in IE 8.
I'm not talking about incompatibility whatsoever. It's not like I'm complaining about the lack of
the ability to use the <video> tag or something. I'm talking purely about the perfomance and
response times of totally IE compatible javascript applications.
The performance difference between IE 8 and the other two major browsers, Firefox and Chrome,
is staggering. I find I'm writing applications now that I know just won't work in IE 8, not because of
a lack of support, or a need for browser specific code, but because IE 8 will just slow to a crawl
even though the other major browsers handle it with ease.
IE is still the most used browser, and I'd like to be able to make sites that I know can function on it as
well as any other browser. The other option is just to dumb down the applications and interfaces to be
able to work on IE, in essence moving backwards.
I'd like to see a much improved javascript engine in IE 9 and a much faster development cycle.