First official HTML5 tests topped by...Microsoft

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Interesting to see IE9 platform preview 6 out perform Google Chrome 7.0.517.41 beta, Firefox 4 Beta 6, Opera 10.60 & Safari 5.0.7533.16 in the first set of W3C HTML5 site conformance tests.

http://test.w3.org/html/tests/reporting/report.htm

Nice work MS, I expect much wailing, gnashing of teeth and "yeah, but, no but, yeah but..." excuses from the others to follow shortly.

Is Microsoft increasingly showing itself to be a reformed character leaving Google and potentialy Apple as the Evil Empires de jour?

Whatever you think, credit where credit's due, it's a hell of a turn around.
 
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Get a proper Ad-Block on IE9 and I would happily use it as my main browser. It is set to be fantastic by all accounts.
 
When MS care about something they usually do a good job of it. The irony is the period they're putting the most effort into IE is probably the same period they lost most market share.
 
It might stop us rolling out Firefox at work though and I doubt we'd be the only business who'd have second thoughts if IE9 was decent. I'm interested in the lack of bloat and annoying prompts when you first load it, those have been my biggest bugbears with IE recently, you open it to browse and have to click a few things first. I don't want an questionaire, I just want to browse.

Annoying when you work in IE and it does it at almost every PC you go to ;)
 
Halfmad said:
It might stop us rolling out Firefox at work though and I doubt we'd be the only business who'd have second thoughts if IE9 was decent. I'm interested in the lack of bloat and annoying prompts when you first load it, those have been my biggest bugbears with IE recently, you open it to browse and have to click a few things first. I don't want an questionaire, I just want to browse.

Annoying when you work in IE and it does it at almost every PC you go to ;)
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What is it about IE that makes you roll out Firefox at work? I'm almost certain you can get rid of the questionnaire the first time you launch it through group policy.
 
It seems that when Microsoft see a real threat and market loss they do their best (windows 7 and windows 7 phone come to mind) it just shows that healthy competition is best for the consumers
 
This isn't really news. It's been clear for over a year now that Microsoft has been working feriously hard on their HTML5 stack and have made larger investments into it than anybody else. This will all start to come clear for average joes a year or two after IE9's release when other browsers are still trying to catch up.

MikeHunt79 said:
What exactly is a conformance test?
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It's like those useless ACID tests, but not actually useless.
 
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