Internet Explorer 9 Video Leaked, Scores 95 Acid3

Well, they're making progress. Hopefully they can catch up to the other browsers or at least get into respectable range.

I prefer the sleak Chrome interface to this.

looks like chrome

its hard to create a brand new interface. So the new one appear to be really good and maximize the space on the screen. The performance appear to be excellent... but we don't know what is the hardware behind the scene...
so.... 1 word....
when when when ???

Sweetness. Although I'll probably stay with FF, this looks like it's finally catching up to modern browsers.

... FF FTW!!! but in slower mobile internet areas OPERA with turbo...

But part of the Acid 3 test is that the animation has to be smooth not just rendered correctly. Looked a little choppy to me.

Maybe it's just me, but I will always prefer Firefox over any browser (have USED them all like they were my only browser). Been using Firefox since it's conception. I don't care about the little webpage real estate I lose with Firefox (just formatted, haven't had a chance to add my add-ons yet to make it sleeker than any browser out now)

But, here are my findings as of 2 minutes ago for the Acid3 test(all browsers up-to-date):

Chrome: 100
Opera: 100
Safari: 100
FF 3.6 & 4B: 97
IE8: 20

This leads me to believe that Microsoft is not in the "loop" with everyone else. Though knew about IE and the Acid test for quit some time now. But still can't believe to this day that they are that behind, considering it's Microsoft.

Though, still find it funny that for the past 6+ months, Mozilla hasn't been able to get a 100 rating, but it's close enough for me.

But, on the subject of IE, they are still behind everyone, even if this is a TRUE test of IE9.

Open source will always win with applications.

I could only stand to watch the first 20 seconds. I'm not easily swayed by pretty, resize-able, swirling pictures. Video is a failure. What I want to see right off the bat is how it's going to be better and easier to navigate in the real world. FireFox for the win..... and even that is losing me.

Just tested acid3 with FF 3.6.4 and got a 94. Chrome gives me 100 but I have more issuse with it and some websites than FF or IE8.

Opera > all

It's hard not to be skeptical here. I think we've all been burned more than once by Microsoft's empty promises and overzealous marketing. Until their browsers become consistently compliant with all standards and dramatically increase speed, people will keep switching. That's not to mention causing web app developers years of headaches of developing cross-browser compliant websites.

However, I'll still have a crack at it when the final version comes out because there's still that sliver of hope that they'll get it right.

FYI, the first time I tried to submit this on my work browser IE8, it gave me a script error at the bottom of the page.

I just want it to have extensive html5 support, otherwise we'll be waiting for IE10 to see any mainstream use of all the new fun stuff.

Heh, just found this:
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ [...] fault.html

IE just needs to be compatible and safe for people to like it. As long as there are no major performance problems. Safety & Compatibility are the winning categories if they can add that along with a small footprint then they'll win some friends.

If they can get some cool skins going and some useful apps then bonus - but previous releases have really made Web Developers and users pretty darn irritated.

Will it let in antimalaware doctor and all that crap...

I really hope Ms get it's **** together on that cause their browsers are just crap....

Yeah, I can't wait until this goes live and gets pushed through automatic updates. That's going to be a fun morning at work. "OMGZ WHERE IS ALL THE BUTTONS HOW DO I USE IT?!" x1000.

We already knew the Acid3 test results. MS posted them on the IE9 Preview site a while ago along with the SunJava results as well as performance, which its pretty close to Opera and the others.

I am waiting for a real test though. A lot of people like to use Googles test but that's kinda biased. I want to see all 5 browsers on the same hardware each opening up each web site.

While IE9 is actually cleaner than IE7~8... its still a rather stupid tab-arrangement. In its current config, theres room for about 2-3 tabs since the address bar takes up about half the window.

My Opera 10 operates at about 8 usually. Just opening Opera means I have at least 6 tabs loading up, complete with histories.

And of course, we can expect rows of YAHOO, GOOGLE, and other junk bars that normally install themselves onto IE making its GUI improvements rather moot.

While google's chrome is the most sparse UI, its also crumblesome and featureless. Good for the typical moron, I guess. (not saying Chrome users are morons).

Meh. I'll download and install it. Then, use it when all other browsers fail. Been doing this ever since Firefox came out.

I can see it now, the new MS ad campaign:

"IE 9: we promise it only sucks a *tiny* bit more than all the other browsers!"

I'd certainly like to try IE9 out.

I use Firefox at the moment, but I'm afraid it just doesn't have the same 'lite' appeal as it used to. It seems very bloated and slow to start up at times (on a 4.2GHz overclocked i7 930 running a RAID0).

I enjoy using Chrome but still don't feel it mature enough to use permanently, for some reason.

Well here is the Acid 3 results folks:
IE8 12/100
IE9 95/100
Firefox 4 Beta 5 97/100
Safari 100/100
Opera 100/100
Chrome 100/100
IE 9 will still be behind all the other browsers when it realeases

acid 3 isn't too relevant. I'd be looking for html5 standards being meet much more.

Acid3 means completely nothing.

AFAICT, all latest browsers run on XP except IE9! MS should take this into consideration from the beginning...

Next week we'll all find out.