Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Jun 2008 22:40 UTC
"Internet Explorer 8 is set to be Microsoft's most standards compliant browser ever. After originally stating that IE8 would default to the same non-compliant behavior exhibited by IE7, Microsoft relented and plumped for standard-by-default. The first beta of IE8 was released in March and it did indeed default to standards compliance. Web developers have been clamouring for standards compliance for a long time; IE is a long way behind the competition, requiring considerable hacks and workarounds to get pages working properly. IE8 should make things a lot better - but it will still fall far short of the standards set by Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Some of these problems are technical, but others are cultural. Where the other browser developers are open and communicative, Microsoft is still leaving web developers in the dark."
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RE[6]: FF not as good as what it claims
by Manuel FLURY on Mon 16th Jun 2008 14:32
in reply to "RE[5]: FF not as good as what it claims"
Member since:2005-07-05
I've opened a bug on bugzilla but can't find it anymore. The developper told me this problem was linked into gecko.
I've tried this on ***many*** different config and always got the same result, windows/linux w or w/o extensions.
FF3 is still not as fast as it's competitors.
If your happy with it, I'm happy for you. Hammering that it's good it's fast it's better is not enough.
Currently I use FF because I've no better alternative, but as soon as a decent interface with webkit (and extensions) will be available I'll switch my browser.
RE[7]: FF not as good as what it claims
by _txf_ on Mon 16th Jun 2008 18:13
in reply to "RE[6]: FF not as good as what it claims"
Member since:2008-03-17
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2005-11-10
Works fine on Firefox 3/Mac. 2.16GHz/2GB.
As a more fair test I also tried it on an eee pc (630Mhz/Firefox2), and whilst it took 5 seconds to load the page (nothing unusual for any page on this computer), the scrolling and response was good.
If you're having chronic problems with this HTML, you should try disabling all your extensions in case any of them are re-parsing the html looking for things.