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[Matthew W.]

IE9 is now released for anyone who wants to use it. But there are a few flaws. Google Wave and HTML5 videos on youtube are still not supported even if HTML5 is supported in HTML5. Here's a sad thing for all you multi-taskers: There is no tabbed browsing at the moment for IE9 Dev Preview. For all you Windows XP users it supported as from what I have heard.

So if you are interested in getting IE9 here it is: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

Just for your information there is no support for IE9 as it is still a preview.

[Noldi]

I like firefox, simple and easy to use

[Josh]

I can't wait to re-code all my websites to make them IE9 compatible.

[marek]

Josh, on 17 March 2010 - 04:11 PM, said:

I can't wait to re-code all my websites to make them IE9 compatible.

Uh, that sounds stupid? IE8 follows the specs just as good as Firefox as Chrome for what it supports(so far I've never needed to make any IE8 specific changes, only the older ones). Now IE9 should be doing the same, heck they even support SVG now.

[Josh]

That is not true at all. IE8 still had major problems with alpha/png transparency. There is also no rgba support. And in general, the browser was coded for CSS 2.1 support, not CSS 3. Try running the CSS 3 selectors test and you'll get a better idea (Spoiler alert: "From the 43 selectors 22 have passed, 1 are buggy and 20 are unsupported (Passed 349 out of 578 tests)").

Just because you haven't had to make any CSS hacks for IE8 doesn't mean other people haven't. You may not work in environments that require complicated selectors, or often use transparency, but other people do. Talk to a professional web designer and you'll find out that you are wrong. And next time, think twice before calling something stupid.

[marek]

Hey what do I know, I'm usually the code monkey who does all the backend work while someone else does the frontend. :P Professionals though? I must be way too desensitized to code to actually notice anything that warrants that title anymore.

Though the reasoning for a lack of CSS 3 support was that it was still very much a big working draft back when 8 was released, though now its a bit more finalized.

[ionine_]

Does it pass Acid3?

[Matthew W.]

Nope. post2short

[n4ru]

Lacie, on 16 March 2010 - 08:28 PM, said:

few flaws

Yea, like IE.

[ClEMeNt]

n4ru, on 14 April 2010 - 08:58 PM, said:

Yea, like IE.

Welcome back. Did you have fun making a club?

OT: IE STILL EXISTS!?!

[HereIAm]

Who the !@#$ cares about IE9....its IE

[Jae]

I agree, it's like some sort of cancer that still hasn't died off.

I recently tried out Google Chrome and from what I've experienced thus far, it is incredibly much more faster than firefox for me.

[Nabiel]

I use Firefox but Google chrome is that fastest, plus IE is not as safe as those 2 browser IMO

[danieljones2006]

IE 9 is good but i prefer Firefox over IE.