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BucksterMcgee

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Final Internet Explorer 9 preview released -- tons of fixes, speed-ups, and only 8 weeks until the beta (Download Squad)

Aug 26th 2010 12:39AM 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

Final Internet Explorer 9 preview released -- tons of fixes, speed-ups, and only 8 weeks until the beta (Download Squad)

Aug 26th 2010 12:32AM Where is the source for these numbers?

4-way HTML5 speed test: Firefox 3.7 faster than Internet Explorer 9 (video) (Download Squad)

Aug 25th 2010 11:06PM So have you tried this with the most recent versions? I just did a few test on both the latest FF4 build and the IE9 preview 4, and IE9 seems to be out performing FF4 beta slightly about 3% (which isn't much).

I did a test like this with the Fish Tank, as well as the Psychedelic and Hallucinogenic tests.

Fish Tank: 944x925 (used Windows 7 aero snap to each side, but had to tweak IE9's height a bit so they were pixel for pixel the same size)

IE9: 500 fish 45fps, 1000 fish 26fps
FF4: 500 fish, 41fps, 1000 fish 21fps

For every amount of fish below 500 both ran at 60fps. Also, unlike this video I ran each test by themselves, and restarted each 4 times to check for variations.

For the Psychedelic and Hallucinogenic tests I ran each 4 times on both and recorded the values. The averages are shown as well.

IE9: psychedelic: 1850, 1810, 1845, 1827; average: 1833
IE9: hallucinogenic: 606, 616, 633, 603; average; 615
FF4: psychedelic: 1712, 1774, 1774, 1774; average: 1759,
FF4: hallucinogenic: 596, 599, 599, 599; average: 598.25

So these versions IE9 has the slight upper hand, we'll have to see what final versions are like.

(Interesting note: While IE9 seemed to go up and down more between test, FF4 seems to be pretty consistent, not sure what the difference is.)

4-way HTML5 speed test: Firefox 3.7 faster than Internet Explorer 9 (video) (Download Squad)

Aug 25th 2010 10:54PM Did you turn on GPU acceleration in FF4? It's not on by default.

Xbox Live launch titles for Windows Phone 7 finally revealed, we've got the full preview (Engadget)

Aug 17th 2010 7:32PM @Jmar1187 All carriers.

Xbox Live launch titles for Windows Phone 7 finally revealed, we've got the full preview (Engadget)

Aug 17th 2010 7:15PM @BucksterMcgee (cont.)

Creating an App as a Designer without writing a single line of code/integration with Adobe products:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jaime+Rodriguez/Windows-Phone-Design-Days-Blend/

Overview to find documentation of WP7:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jaime+Rodriguez/Windows-Phone-Design-Days-Documentation/

Xbox Live launch titles for Windows Phone 7 finally revealed, we've got the full preview (Engadget)

Aug 17th 2010 7:14PM @BucksterMcgee (cont.)

Psychological Perception/Tolerance of Peception

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jaime+Rodriguez/Windows-Phone-Design-Days-Perceived-Performance/

Pivots and Pano's:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jaime+Rodriguez/Windows-Phone-Design-Days-Pivot-and-Pano/

This one is an absolute must watch, (Engadget showed a part, but the whole thing is great, it really shows the incredibly detail and focus that is being taken with WP7) Audio in WP7:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jaime+Rodriguez/Windows-Phone-Design-Days-Audio/

Xbox Live launch titles for Windows Phone 7 finally revealed, we've got the full preview (Engadget)

Aug 17th 2010 7:13PM
The concept of Metro:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jaime+Rodriguez/Windows-Phone-Design-Days-Metro/

Basic Application Example:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jaime+Rodriguez/Windows-Phone-Design-Days-Applications/

Animation Overview:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Jaime+Rodriguez/Windows-Phone-Design-Days-Animation/

Xbox Live launch titles for Windows Phone 7 finally revealed, we've got the full preview (Engadget)

Aug 17th 2010 7:11PM @BucksterMcgee (FML... 3rd times a charm)





One of my favorite principles of Metro is their 'Light & Simple":

Focus on primary tasks
Do a lot with very little
Fierce reduction of unnecessary elements
Delightful use of whitespace

In particular it's the "Fierce reduction of unnecessary elements" which I find infinitely better than another's companies principle that seem to just be "Fierce reduction of elements..."

And if anyone wants to read more about the Metro guidelines for WP7 they can check it out here:

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9713252

or here for a few more examples:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637515(v=VS.92).aspx

Xbox Live launch titles for Windows Phone 7 finally revealed, we've got the full preview (Engadget)

Aug 17th 2010 7:09PM @BucksterMcgee (Apparently I reached the max character amount for a comment, here's the rest):

One of my favorite principles of Metro is their 'Light & Simple":

Focus on primary tasks
Do a lot with very little
Fierce reduction of unnecessary elements