Microsoft: IE8 beats Firefox and Chrome in 7 out of 10

[Slimy]

With its new "Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the facts" website, Microsoft is promoting IE8 in a questionable way. Ars investigates.

Full Story: Microsoft: IE8 beats Firefox and Chrome in 7 out of 10 areas - Ars Technica

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

I was a long IE fan, but Firefox, Safari 4 and Chrome all beat IE in my opinion.

In Speed mostly, thats what everyone wants these days is speed.

 

[jw12345]

I love Point 8 - Compatibility: Internet Explorer 8 is more compatible with more sites on the Internet than any other browser.

It's spin for: We've abused our market position to disregard standards to the detriment of competition, so you're stuck with us forever.

 

[SoLoR]

IE is decent (its not perfect, but deacent) enough i never bothered with any other browser. However i still have chrome installed as well for that one site/month that i see and doesnt work in IE.

 

[LFB]

i like (and use sometimes) the internet Explorer...

But no one beats Opera... it was the first with 100/100 on Acid3 Test...

 

[Generator]

I mainly use IE but I always have firefox installed just to check the webpages I put together work in everything else. I hate having to deal with 'double-standards' whilst coding php and the alike.

All the css hacks involved just so a page looks right in IE is bad. If MS made there browser follow the standards to start with, I doubt I would have Firefox installed at all.

 

[Master Chief]

Hmm...why don't I perform my own little test? It's called Acid3 (we all know it, but apparently not MS). Blah blah blah, test complete, lets see the results shall we!

Firefox/Minefield: 94%
Chrome: 99%
Opera: 100%
IE8: 12%

Bravo!

 

[shahed26]

I wonder how much Microsoft payed ars technica to publish such non-sense article...
IE 8, is no match against Firefox, chrome or safari.

In fact, i had few of my mates saying that, IE 7, is much better and faster than IE 8.

ACID TEST
IE8 = 12%.

 

[Generator]

How come, when pages are coded poorly everyone blames the browsers lol? Yes other browsers might error-handle better but pages should be checked before-hand! It's an invalid arguement if you ask me..



AcidTest coders fail:
Firefox results for the called XML script @ Test

XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </p>.
Location: Test
Line Number 6, Column 32: <p> <strong/> Parsing Test </strong> </p>
-------------------------------^

IE8 results for the called XML script @
Test

The XML page cannot be displayed

Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. End tag 'strong' does not match the start tag 'p'. Error processing resource 'http://acid3.acidtests.org/xhtml.2'. Line 6,...
<p> <strong/> Parsing Test </strong> </p>-------------------------------^

And here's the result of a 'Markup Validation' at the W3C...
[Invalid] Markup Validation of http://acid3.acidtests.org/xhtml.2 - W3C Markup Validator

 

[Master Chief]

AcidTest also has some purposely built in errors to also test a browser's error handling capabilities. I think IE will pull off a 60% in Acid3 by the time other browsers are acing Acid9.

 

[Lordbob75]

What is Acid3 and what does it test?

And they have an Add-ons for IE8 now, but since its not open source so it will only be what M$ decides to make...... which won't be much. Or as many. Or anything for Appearance.

~Lordbob

 

[dmex]

AcidTest also has some purposely built in errors to also test a browser's error handling capabilities. I think IE will pull off a 60% in Acid3 by the time other browsers are acing Acid9.

I doubt it, the results would need to report success if it failed instead of the error messages, WebServers cant detect client-side browser rendering errors either so if they did code some purposely built errors it just to give that browser a lower score :huh:

The Acid3 tests have not been standardized yet hence why Microsoft will not support them with IE until they are (they dont want to split the web with standards using IE ever again like what happened before), I also noticed some tests (15) fail IE because it doesn't allow textfiles to execute scripts :sarc:

What is Acid3 and what does it test?

And they have an Add-ons for IE8 now, but since its not open source so it will only be what M$ decides to make...... which won't be much. Or as many. Or anything for Appearance.

~Lordbob

One of the best IE addons was IE7Pro, Its having some issues with IE8 atm though

 

[Lee]

Does it really make that much of a difference what test the browsers can pass or not pass. Isn't really a personal choice. IMO it really does not matter; Opera is my browser of choice and will probably remind that way. Yes I tried all the others including some that aren't even listed, but I always end up using Opera.

 

[andyell]

Why bother

Why do they need to bother when they own the Market??

 

[digitalrurouni]

IE 8 is definitely a step in the right direction. I feel Firefox has stagnated a bit. Chrome is definitely ramping up and I am using the SRware releases of Chrome and it freaking rocks. Tried Opera once felt too clunky and no way am I installing Safari with apple crap that gets bundled with it.