Just downloaded IE9 beta (on vista), I ve tested some HTML5 demo too and must said that they work pretty well, also it enable some nice things as the ability on dailymotion to right click a video and then save it.
website (even big one) seems really faster, anyway I notice some lags sometime, not sure where they come from
(last but not least I can now type message on JGO without the textarea scroll bar problem, ouf … )
shock an IE user on JGO!!!
no, not a simple user, a fanatic user !! 
( and a Google enemy too 
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EDIT 1 : I never liked “fashion”
EDIT 2 : about lags, seems that I needed to deactivate GPU acceleration and everythink work nice now, I suppose my GPU is too old 
EDIT 3 : there are some really nice demos here http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/ (especially the pool game ) , with IE enabling HTML5, it may become more interresting for video and advertisment than flash
better try this:
http://acid3.acidtests.org/ (I have 100/100)
http://slides.html5rocks.com/#slide1
http://html5demos.com/
why ? I really prefer the pool demo
I only got 95/100 (but can find any pixel error), is that a bad score ?
ps: I dont really care too much about standard but rather care that most people can run what I produce, see the world most viewed website http://www.google.com/
because it helps me to estimate IE9’s progress…
:o amazing… last time I checked IE (IE8) it had something about 30…
well, it makes life easier for developers… and the user gets what the designer/developer wanted him to get…
well these are great news, indeed… will try it, too… as soon as I get to my win7 box…
just installed IE9 beta.
Applets still are rendered on the top level, Currently IE still doesnt support DIV over an applet.
Sounds like a feature, and not a bug to me? O_O
Why? (forgive me if you’re joking)
It makes it impossible to have any sort of view hierarchy in any websites with applets. That’s particularly bad if people wanted to run little Java things on the side like is often done with Flash.
well if there is such a feature I hope its Oracle that implements it and does it the right way. Apple added it to plugin2 on the mac and in the process massively crippled performance on all java applets (including pulpcore) and totally broke any opengl applets (both lwjgl and jogl).
Ahh, I see. I was thinking it’d prevent div’s from blocking your java applet game or something.
both mozilla and chrome (on windows) have support for Div’s over the applet. so I dont see how there would be a problem for IE to do the same.
would be nice if someone could file a bug report with IE team
does performance are ok ?
performance seems fine. Havnt had any problems with LWJGL applets either.
yet I havnt tried placing a DIV over LWJGL in Chrome or Firefox, just a standard JApplet.
i still prefer firexfox compare to IE
I don’t like the way this thread is turning. Is everyone seriously using IE compared to good browsers like Chrome and Firefox? 
Did not mean to offend anyone - I just think IE is pretty bad. Feel free to prove me wrong
prove me it is …
I work on webdev in all browsers on a daily basis, and I can only say that MSIE 9 (ok, beta…) was a big disappointment, as it does not fix a lot of bugs that I have been fighting in 7 and 8 (I completely ignore 6 to keep my sanity).
Having said that, MSIE 9 is a major improvement, but not on par with Chrome. I don’t really care about super fast hardware acceleration, as my ‘stuff’ doesn’t need it, I want stability and standards.
I must admit that the IE9-beta is also pretty buggy (oups…) but it is only a beta
[quote]I work on webdev in all browsers on a daily basis, and I can only say that MSIE 9 (ok, beta…) was a big disappointment, as it does not fix a lot of bugs that I have been fighting in 7 and 8 (I completely ignore 6 to keep my sanity).
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I also use to develop website, and encounter similar problems and tens of bugs with FF (and earlier netscape), my opinion is that IE is no more or less buggy than FF (and vice-versa), problem is people who develop with only one browser in mind (or only W3C in mind, wich is even more stupid). back in 2004 IE was nearly 90% of the browser market, so not a lot of probleme of compatibilty as long as it was running on IE it was standard (earing nowaday that IE is not standard is pretty fun…), it was nice
If I write really complex stuff, and it looks equal in FireFox, Chrome and Opera, while MSIE is the only one to screw up, adding hours or even days writing workarounds, then tell me why you are insinuating it’s all about perception.