Big deal
I stopped believing benchmarks years ago, when Intel twiddled the tests so their CPU 'performed' best.
Google Chrome has finally met a web benchmark suite it can't master, and no one could be happier than the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft, which has used the occasion to suggest that the Chocolate Factory's browser is not really the speed demon it's cracked up to be. Dubbed RoboHornet, the new, open source benchmark suite …
You know I wrote a structured, logical argument going over my experiences with Chrome, IE9 & IE10. I just deleted it all, because there's just no point.
There are too many people who will go "M1croshaft Internet Exploder sux donkey balls".
They don't care about trying the latest versions out, listening to Microsoft saying what's new and what's been done. They don't care about how much work has gone into it because all they'll ever see is the time they tore their hair out making a site work in IE6.
So I'm sick of it. I'm not going to bother making any sensible logical arguments that are vaguely pro IE10.
Time for me to go ride a penguin or something.
Like most IT professionals, I divide my time between different operating systems -- for me, roughly equally between Win7, XP, OSX, and 3-4 flavours of Linux. If IE10 worked on all those, fine, I'd give it an unbiased test drive. But I'm not going to waste my time becoming proficient with *any* software package that only runs on a single version of a single OS.
Eh? Presumably by using the browser for all of one's web activity for a week or so, whilst fiddling with all the options, finding and installing required plugins, and googling for workarounds for its most egregious UI faults, in an attempt to configure it for one's own needs.
Was this supposed to be a trick question?
"Dubbed RoboHornet, the new, open source benchmark suite is different from earlier ones in that it doesn't focus on timing arbitrary JavaScript algorithms"
Wasn't it Microsoft caught out optimising the JavaScript Engine in Internet Explorer to run faster only in the Benchmarks - link --
'In one life, you are Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company'
Wasn't it Microsoft caught out optimising the JavaScript Engine in Internet Explorer to run faster only in the Benchmarks
Just another example of Goodhart's law, it happens everywhere.