IE9 Bests Chrome in HTML5 Test
PrintChrome has gained a large following in its short history on a reputation for speed. According to a new round of benchmarking, it looks like Internet Explorer 9 could actually give Google's browser a run for its money. We heard the new version had improved HTML5 support, but they weren't kidding. In the newly released Preview 3, IE9 managed to beat Chrome soundly on a test of HTML5 canvas speed. It's described as "orders of magnitude faster"
Hardware accelerated canvas rendering is one of the new features in HTML5. This sort of content is expected to become more common in the coming years. But it isn't all good news on the benchmarking front for Microsoft. The SunSpider JavaScript benchmark found the new IE9 preview to be 30% slower than Chrome.
Keeping in mind that this is still a preview build of the browser, we're feeling pretty optimistic. It's hard to see moving to IE as our main browser, but it would be nice if people had a decent browser on their PCs out of the box. Hit this link to see the video.
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Sparx10
June 27, 2010 at 2:08pm
Even if it is faster, Firefox and Chrome will figure out how they did that, and make it even faster than IE9. Firefox and Chrome still have add-ons anyway, so they will always win :D
PawBear
June 24, 2010 at 8:13pm
Fascinating. If it's real there's hope for IE yet. Even better, if they can do it everyone else will. I'm looking forward to MaxPc's next comparisons.
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leetNightshade
June 24, 2010 at 6:38pm
I'll definitely remain a little skeptical, but let me point this out:
They did better in hardware acceleration, this is the company that writes graphics cards api's; you'd think they'd have a thing up their sleeve.
Vano
June 24, 2010 at 3:54pm
This is the same kind of test as google made when they released chrome - optimized for chrome...
Now MS showing tests that they cooked up...
These kind of tests proves nothing
versak
June 24, 2010 at 2:52pm
i wonder how much of that is cooked up by the explorer team. i could make a web page that shows different results in different browsers, and i wonder if they made tests to gain support. curious what they used to calculate frames per second in chrome and firefox.
now if they only started supporting css that has been around for ever...
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