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BucksterMcgeeAug 26th 2010 12:39AM

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I think the article and a few other people miss understand what Microsoft is doing with IE9 and acceleration. It sounds like the article thinks that programmers/developers have to write new code to take care of Microsoft's new hardware acceleration.... that is simply not true. What Microsoft has done here affects all webpages automatically, no developers have to change a single line of code. So I'm not sure where the confusion is coming from for this.

Furthermore, Microsoft is actively trying to remove the differences between browser rendering. They believe that if you open a web page in IE or Chrome that they should look exactly the same, as the standards describe, which isn't true for all these browser that people tout as being standards compliant. In good faith of that, Microsoft is telling developers to stop designing with the IE code in mind, instead they should just develop as the standards say, and IE will just work and should look the same no matter the browser.

All of that sounds great to me.... so I don't know what the issue is with people and why they think Microsoft is doing the opposite of what is actually happening. /shrug

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