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Attack of the Bugs

Browser tests, clarifications, and refreshing honesty

Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:13:47 PM

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Earlier this week I wrote about Microsoft's rather misleading standards compliance table, which falsely gave you the impession that Internet Explorer 9 was better than the other browsers, unless you carefully read the "fine print". Yesterday, Microsoft posted a clarification and corrections for the test page. I'm very happy that they accepted the criticism, and even updated the page with some corrections.

Since I have already criticized a competitor for posting misleading information, I also think it's a good idea to give praise to competitors where praise is due.

In related news, Google released a test runner for the Sputnik JavaScript test suite last week. What's interesting is that Chrome isn't even in the first or second spot in the test. It's behind both Opera and Safari, while Firefox is behind Chrome, and IE in last place.

This kind of honesty is certainly refreshing in a market where browser vendors usually try to make themselves look as good as possible compared to the competition.

So hats off to you for this one, Google!

Microsoft's IE9 standards tests vs. realityOpera: The media=all of the industry!

Comments

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:38:52 PM

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Charles SchlossChas4 Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:41:02 PM

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ouzowtfouzoWTF Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:47:58 PM

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Mağruf ÇolakoğluZAHEK Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:00:33 PM

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netwolf Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:02:18 PM

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Teoumbra-tenebris Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:05:37 PM

Ironically, the thumb-up image is not a svg ;-)

prd3 Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:21:31 PM

What's ironic about that?

FransFrenzie Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:22:46 PM

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edvakf Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:46:07 PM

Way to go.

I'd love to see these below working on Opera too. (real websites are failing because of it)

javascript:alert( {get foo(x){}} ) // expect alert
javascript:(function f(){function g(){alert(typeof f);} g();})(); // expect 'function'

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:22:47 PM

lol there are lots of up here!!!

I can't resist.....

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ahh!

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Lv1z Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:38:44 PM

Yes, was a good move for Google. M$, well, is doesn't surprise me.
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d4rkn1ght Sunday, March 21, 2010 12:10:36 AM

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Nintendofanatic Sunday, March 21, 2010 12:27:23 AM

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Tamil Sunday, March 21, 2010 12:35:34 AM

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Kai OckendorfOckendorf Sunday, March 21, 2010 1:26:30 AM

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Sunshinecloudssunshine Sunday, March 21, 2010 1:58:10 AM

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Brian HuismanGreyWyvern Sunday, March 21, 2010 3:41:47 AM

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Oops! I mean: up

Pallab DeIndyan Sunday, March 21, 2010 3:41:53 AM

Really impressed with the IE9 teams sincerity.
I remember Apple's misleading facts for Safari 4. They didn't bother to acknowledge Opera. And even when, the truth was pointed out by several bloggers they didn't budge. Well done MS.

Shane Bundyoperabaker Sunday, March 21, 2010 8:08:53 AM

I was testing to validate their claims on reliable JS execution. Yes, Opera 10.5 came first with just 78 failures (in 5246 test cases), Safari 4 came next with 159 failures, Chrome 4 with 218, Firefox 3.6 with 259 and IE8 with 463 failures. yes

KawaKyoufuKawa Sunday, March 21, 2010 3:45:26 PM

Woah, that's a big ol' thumbs up there. up

random414 Sunday, March 21, 2010 9:27:42 PM

yes

Necroman Sunday, March 21, 2010 9:37:11 PM

cheers

endless lovepersianweblog Sunday, March 21, 2010 9:50:58 PM

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Anthony Museatlantis FletcherMuseatlantis Monday, March 22, 2010 1:54:59 AM

It is nice to see that internet explorer is improving even if it is still miles behind every other browser. Seems like Opera is doing amazing yes

Cutting Spoonhellspork Monday, March 22, 2010 3:04:34 AM

Happy to see a clarification from the Microsoft Staff Blog.

Also pleased to see another mention of Google's Sputnik and its relatively balanced test results.

Anton DiazAntonDiaz Monday, March 22, 2010 6:05:42 AM

webtax, lol up

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Monday, March 22, 2010 10:07:56 PM

Originally posted by AntonDiaz:

webtax, lol up

+1 bigsmile

Charles SchlossChas4 Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:03:19 AM

+1 make that a smiley on MyO

Mad Scientist (عادل)qlue Tuesday, March 23, 2010 1:02:27 PM

yes.

KawaKyoufuKawa Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:11:09 PM

Webtax wins. Somebody find him a copy of Opera 1.0 bigsmile

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Thursday, March 25, 2010 2:41:24 PM

Originally posted by KyoufuKawa:

Somebody find him a copy of Opera 1.0

lol

JaredpieRr0Ur Saturday, April 10, 2010 5:30:57 AM

Originally posted by webtax

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This kind of honesty is certainly refreshing in a market where browser vendors usually try to make themselves look as good as possible compared to the competition.



Well chrome still has explanations - on the video IE posted about chrome just this past wks.

Charles SchlossChas4 Sunday, April 11, 2010 6:16:42 AM

Sunspider has been updated (now version 0.9.1)

beritaku Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:19:12 AM

party to Google and especially to Opera to came out at the first position to be the browser that execute browser correctly

beritaku Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:21:40 AM

Correction to above comment

party to Google and especially to Opera to came out at the first position to be the browser that execute JavaScript correctly

smile

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:22:57 AM

Originally posted by beritaku:

Correction to above comment


There is an edit function right under your post. wink

Mad Scientist (عادل)qlue Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:56:56 AM

Well, maybe he didn't see it. left.
(it has also been known to 'disappear' for no apparent reason before the twenty four hour expiry)

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