IE9 - opinions?

[R Giskard Reventlov]

Seems fine: have it on all my home machines and everyone is quite happy with it: no problems so far other than with a couple of sites where a few pages will not load properly so fall back to FF.

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[Abu Mami]

I love it! The beta was a bit flaky, but the new RC version rocks. I find it to be easier to work than previous browsers. Now that I know the RC version works so well, I'll install it on my other machines.

[John M Drescher]

To be honest I do not see much difference in any of the versions since I do not really make use of any of the new HTML standards.

John

[Henry Minute]

VectorX wrote:

Lets see if it supports html 5 and css properly

Oh, it does. MS have redefined properly.

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[Albert Holguin]

Every time I go back to IE I end up running right back to firefox... IE seems to always lag years behind firefox in features and functionality!

[Albert Holguin]

boo! ...time for a new company?

[BerggreenDK]

MSIE6 as Corp. Standard says everything. Move on citizen, there is nothing left to see.

[glennPattonWork3]

Spinal Tap Ref?

[Erling Limm]

Ah yes.. but IE9 RC is still quicker (sunspider-wise). Here's the results om my machine: IE9 RC : 292ms FF 4b : 333ms Chrome 10b: 344ms Opera 11 : 333ms Firefox is sucking more each day.. the only reason I use it is because of firebug at work. Number of HTML/CSS-features on FF is nice though, but it still crashes alot. IE9 RC is now my main browser besides FF for development. I think it's awesome. They're missing some CSS3 like gradients, text-shadow, etc. but atleast they implementet border-radius, border-shadow, svg, canvas and other goodies!

[Ed K]

So far so good. Went to a MS bootcamp which included some of the new features.. pretty slick and event better.. useful.

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[BC3Tech]

like it a lot, but already gave a couple points of feedback to the dev team 1) don't treat the tabs as a "special bar" - if you separate the tabs on to another row, and then have say, favorites bar and the Bing toolbar, your tabs are still way at the top, makes for a very unintuitive interface. 2) it still can't handle textboxes on webpages that have large amounts of data. i run a forum that has a textbox in its configuration which contains e-mail & IP addresses off "bot" offenders/registrations. this list is huge. Firefox & Chrome can open the config page w/o delay, and allow me to edit the data in the box and submit the changes. IE9 hangs completely, just as IE8 did. interestingly enough i'm not finding a whole lot of pages that require me to put it in compatibility mode, which is nice.

[dbrenth]

In the past month I have been using it, I went from hating it to liking it much better than IE 8. I thought I wouldn't like having all the tool bars gone, but now I hate seeing 10 lines of junk in other people's IE 8.

Brent

[Rob Ford 2]

IE9 seemed fast on first using it. Now seems to have slowed to a crawl. Several sites requiring a log-in no longer work, so have to use other browser. A link from an email in windows Mail, say, only opens IE9 browser - the actual page does not load. You have to go back and click the link again. Don't like the favourites opening on the right hand side - they get hidden, as all components by others open there to avoid the old IE versions opening on the left. No sign that MS developers ever actually use their browsers or they would make them more user friendly and reduce constant clicking off of pointless warnings I do not need. Very tiresome. Overall a 5/10.

[Fabio Franco]

Erling Limm wrote:

IE9 RC is now my main browser besides FF for development

You could still use IE 9 rendering engine on FF using IE Tab and keep using only one browser. Get the best of both :)

[Irv Lennert]

I have been using all the new browsers for development but IE9 is my main browser. FF is still the main browser I use during development (as others have said) because of firebug. But IE9 now supports border radiuses and other features that I use. Ultimately I think it will be a great browser but all of them have their strong points. The two strongest IE9 features to me are, speed and screen real estate IMHO.

[Mike Ortmans]

I think it's a big improvement on IE8, and knocks FF into the shade. CSS3 is well displayed, but I haven't tried it much with HTML5. Easier to use than Chrome. The older I get the better I was mikeo

[dbJeebus]

It's a lot better than the last release. Very fast, no crashes yet (one week in) and not a lot of wasted screen space. I like Firefox and Chrome too but basically I am just used to IE. Pathetic isn't it?

dbJeebus

[Z Human]

You should try Firefox 4.0 beta, or else the nightlies, which I use as my day-to-day browser. I pretty much think Firefox 4 is the best browser right now, even pre-release (well, a few weeks away from release they say). It does Direct2D hardware acceleration like IE9, plus it has just about all current web standards supported. The JavaScript engine is also really fast, very close to Chrome and IE. If you noticed, blog posts by IE9's development team seem to have stopped comparing current Firefox builds, perhaps because they are so competitive. I'm not sure what makes them say that IE9 is the only browser to have hardware acceleration because Firefox's D2D layer has been there for nearly a year of development builds. They are definitely really slow to release major releases, but if you use their development builds, it's pretty impressive. As fast as Chrome seemed when it first came out, I think Firefox 4.0 puts it to shame both with its architecture and with its speed. If they finish all of the little UI tweaks that they had planned for 4.0 but that haven't yet made it in, it would be just about perfect for me.

[Mark AJA]

There are no browsers that fully support HTML5 and CSS. Some say they do and when you ask them 'Why dose ??? not work?', they then say they haven't added that function yet!. IE9 dose support most HTML5 and CSS. More than most other browsers. I like the CSS code that can display a video with rounded corners etc. Haven't found any other browser (excluding IE clones) that can do this. So to the question, dose it support HTML5 and CSS the answer is~: Yes just about as good as any other browser.

[Mark AJA]

The sites it dosen't work on may have only been tested with a Mozilla engine and not with a Trident engine. I expect your other browser is using Mozilla. Please list some of the sites, so we cal look at the web page code.