IE9 Released, Media Has Opinions

Yesterday Microsoft released IE9 and since then we've been getting tons of submissions about it: It's hard to tell if it is a threat to web development or the fastest thing on the web or even a waste of time. You'll just have to decide for yourself... if you are one of the 9% of Slashdot readers who actually uses IE.

Re:IE9 good, but still a lot of room to improve.

[jsnipy]

... at least until I can afford a monitor larger than 1024x768

i spit up my coffee when i read this

"Media has opinions"

[Hazel Bergeron]

If we're going to write inane headlines, let's at least try to be funny...

1. Include Your Children When Baking Cookies

2. Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Experts Say

3. Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers

4. Drunks Get Nine Months in Violin Case

5. Iraqi Head Seeks Arms

6. Prostitutes Appeal to Pope

7. Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over

8. British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands

9. Teacher Strikes Idle Kids

10. Clinton Wins Budget; More Lies Ahead

11. Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told

12. Miners Refuse to Work After Death

13. Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant

14. Stolen Painting Found by Tree

15. Two Sisters Reunited after 18 Years in Checkout Counter

16. War Dims Hope for Peace

17. If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While

18. Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide

19. Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge

20. New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group

21. Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Space

22. Kids Make Nutritious Snacks

23. Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half

24. Typhoon Rips through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

Re:My fox is on fire

[Jorl17]

And it runs natively in decent Unixy systems! Oh wait...

Re:IE9 good, but still a lot of room to improve.

[sootman]

When your phone catches up to your desktop, it's definitely time to upgrade.

Re:IE9? Pass.

[Spad]

As with any Linux product, by the time I've finally worked out what all the config options do, a new version will be out that deprecates all of them in favour of newer, shinier options.

Lies...

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/#/highlights/all-around-fast

"Without hardware acceleration, browsers only use about 10% of the processing power your PC has to offer. Internet Explorer 9 unlocks that other 90%. "

Rubbish! Firefox frequently uses 99% of my cpu!

Executive Summary of Comments

[hduff]

Microsoft is good/evil.
IE 9 is wonderful/terrible.
Opera/Safari/Firefox is better/worse.
The best OS is Windows/Mac/Linux.
Sun rises in East/West.
The sun does not 'rise' you insensitive clod.

Re:IE9? Pass.

[SuiteSisterMary]

As with all Linux products, once I've found a stable chain of individual tools that does what needs to be done, I will live in fear of upgrading any of them, lest the entire chain fail catastrophically.

Re:"Media has opinions"

[UnoriginalBoringNick]

5. Iraqi Head Seeks Arms

From the Wikipedia article on Michael Foot (British Politician and leader of the Labour Party in the early '80s):

In 1986, Foot was the subject of one of the best-known newspaper headlines of all time. The Times ran an article about Foot, who had been put in charge of a nuclear disarmament committee. The headline stated "Foot Heads Arms Body." Although originally written as a joke by editor Martyn Cornell, the paper ran it.

Of course some of us secretly wished that Mr Foot could find some evidence that the minister of defence was a supporter of the national front. (There was neither evidence nor even a suggestion that this could be true)

Why did we wish this? Think of the headline -

Foot knows arms head backs Front muscle