[dba-Tech] The Windows Surface Pro

 Hi Jim --

I'm not against Chrome or FireFox or Opera or Safari... and I'm not pro-IE. In fact I'm using Google Chrome as my main development browser for a couple of the last years. Before that it was Firefox and before Firefox it was IE. And I'm even used Netscape a long ago. And before that I was proposed to try Mosaic but I didn't take the chance to use it.
And I'm currently considering to switch back to IE - so I'm running all that tests, which results I'm posting here to see has IE got back to mainstream (Web standards) and does IE performs as good as the browsers market leaders or not...

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 I take page performance as a whole (with a
collection of graphics, program and font libraries
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ASAIU the tests Hans proposed to run and which I have run belong to "stress-tests" - IMO they *shouldn't* be accepted as a whole as each part of that tests usually tests very specific feature: every part of that tests' results should be compared to get the "whole picture".

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But I will do, an impartial test, as soon as possible, 
maybe later this week when a quiet evening arises
and will post the results.
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Thank you. I will be waiting for your tests results with interest.

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PS Do you have a copy of MS IE 100 that I could share?
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Jim, sorry I didn't get what "copy of MS IE 100" do you mean?

Thank you.

-- Shamil

Воскресенье, 10 февраля 2013, 10:36 -08:00 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>:
>Hi Shamil:
>
>I have nothing against IE, personally. 
>
>OTOH, technically, the last few versions of IE (7 to 9) have been disasters
>and I am sure you, who would have had to build websites with these products
>will agree.
>
>IE10, seems head and shoulders above it predecessors. It appears that
>Microsoft is finally, trying to follow the industry standards but
>unfortunately, the court of public opinion is still out on IE and it will be
>years before IE is viewed as serious contender...A browser from which code
>can be written once and run everywhere...without major issues.
>
>As for the suggested browser performance; that has not been my or my
>client's assessment but I take page performance as a whole (with a
>collection of graphics, program and font libraries, multiple CSS directories
>and server calls) and have not run separate tests. (I currently only use
>Chrome tools for testing which suggests a prejudice and of course only runs
>on/in Chrome.) 
>
>But I will do, an impartial test, as soon as possible, maybe later this week
>when a quiet evening arises and will post the results.
>
>Jim
>
>PS Do you have a copy of MS IE 100 that I could share?
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