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Internet Explorer 9 preview 7 available, takes SunSpider crown; Beta now downloaded 13 million times
Like its predecessors, this preview lacks any kind of useful UI -- but if you have the Beta installed, you can follow Lee's guide to hack the Beta UI onto the preview. The Beta, incidentally, has now been downloaded over 13 million times. We're not seeing significant use of IE9 amongst Download Squad readers, but with almost 4% of Ed Bott'z ZDNet readership using IE9, there's definitely some evidence of its growing popularity. With my sources indicating a January release of IE9, Microsoft really ought to release a second beta...
Anyway, in infinitely more exciting news, there's a bunch of cool new HTML5 demos on the Test Drive site to play around with! Shakespeare's Tag Cloud is very cute (and educational!) Galactic, on the other hand, is an excellent example of the 'Open Web' 3D games that we can expect to see next year. It also acts as a very good benchmark tool -- I may have to do another head-to-head browser shootout!
Update: I just tested IE9 on the 'real world' Kraken benchmark... and it beats Firefox!
Another update: The IE Blog has been updated with more information about Preview 7.
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Subscribe to commentsToxigeneNov 23rd 2010 5:24PM
http://digitizor.com/2010/11/17/internet-explorer-9-caught-cheating-in-sunspider-benchmark/
Have fun.
Sebastian AnthonyNov 17th 2010 12:36PM
Have a look at the date on the source of that post (the original blog post about the SunSpider findings).
It's FUD.
danielkzaNov 17th 2010 1:58PM
@Sebastian:
Which post exactly are you talking about? All pages referenced on the blog are dated as 17/11/2010.
Sebastian AnthonyNov 17th 2010 2:43PM
http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2010/09/09/js-benchmarks-closing-in/
ToxigeneNov 17th 2010 1:45PM
Which blog post? This? http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2010/11/16/reporting-a-bug-on-a-fragile-analysis/
Also, all posts here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913315 are recent.
BTW, about
"Update: I just tested IE9 on the 'real world' Kraken benchmark... and it beats Firefox!"
which firefox version did you use? Because on my Win 7 x64 system, IE9 PP7 is almost twice as slow as FF 4.0 beta 8. Even Opera 11 and Chrome's dev versions are marginally faster than IE.
Sebastian AnthonyNov 17th 2010 1:50PM
No, the original findings, from September! (Also on his blog -- don't have the link at hand atm.)
That was with FFb7 vs IE9pp7. I will run some more benchmarks tonight and tomorrow, and post my findings :)
SilverWaveNov 17th 2010 3:27PM
Heh - caught fix things eh!
Reporting a bug on a fragile analysis
"In a previous post, I pointed out a performance oddity concerning SunSpider math-cordic performance in IE9. Some contacts at Microsoft asked us whether we had filed a bug in Microsoft Connect, so I’ve done so. The report is behind a Windows Live ID sign-in wall, so I’ll reproduce it here:"
http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2010/11/16/reporting-a-bug-on-a-fragile-analysis/
tonovisionNov 17th 2010 5:10PM
On my win7x64 system with an i7-920 the only test suite that IE9pp7 is faster than FF4b7 is sunspider. on Kraken it's over 2x as slow and on v8 it's about 50% slower. That just suggests to me that the IE team is either cooking the books on sunspider or they have some really cool optimizations for that test that don't work on any other test suite.
Sebastian AnthonyNov 17th 2010 5:19PM
I guess I'm going to have to run Kraken again :)
Danny BoyNov 17th 2010 6:37PM
Regardless of whether IE9 cheated, a faster IE browser would be a boon for the web. With all of the major browsers optimized for speed and performance, website developers would include more richer content. There's no more IE to drag the rest of the internet down.
Of course, a faster IE would impact the growth of alternative browsers, and perhaps reverse the gains of its nearest rival FF. That would be a concern to its fanboys.
Rick_IE_TeamNov 30th 2010 6:38PM
Hey Folks,
If you have not tried the IE9 Beta yet I encourage you to go to http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ and download the Platform Preview 7 and test the new IE9 Beta PP7. And you can get a feel for how well it performs.
Cheers,
Rick
IE Outreach Team