TLDR: IE9 is a piece of garbage, yet another botched piece of software from MS. What a shame – Do they even care that Apple is CRUSHING THEM? I’d be embarrased

What is the purpose of yet another standard if not to allow web-pages to become “more useful” or let web-designers (or application-developers) do their work with less hassle.

As far as I can see (and read), the progress in IE is all about HTML5 which, when compared to the achievement and possibilities of XHTML has almost … nothing to offer than letting people who are more fond of HTML4 or in general like adding funny stuff to a media which was basically there to present textual contents, have their fun.

Nice use-interfaces are programmed with GUI-frameworks. I do not need HTML5 for that. The web, on the other side, is another thing.

In short. Who needs HTML5 may be in need of something like IE9. Who does not, does not. I don’t.

It’s just basic common sense. If your customers are using one thing, even if you don’t like it, you have to support it. It doesn’t matter what your personal opinions on it are.

IE9 released. I’m a firefox user and I can say without question that IE9 is good.

Why do you all support it anymore !!! I know some of you just have no choice for professional reasons and I really complain you; But you are some way responsible of that situation.

IE9 will be a real piece of s*** and you know it.

The only things MS did well are the DirectX libraries…

Long live XHTML.

Do we?

No. We double or even triple our workloads in an effort to make our latest creations work on just ONE badly coded browser; We KNOW that everything will work on all of the others – its only IE that breaks everything.

Businesses especially (I’m a commercial developer) like to crow on about supporting everyone and ‘Market Share’, but if no-one bothered to make their sites work with IE the market share would plummet and the problem would soon disappear in a puff of standards compliance.

I am currently writing a number of browser based applications, and in every single instance the only problems are caused by IE – even to the point where different versions of IE fail at different stages – Its not as if we are even dealing with just “IE”, we have to make changes to encompass several versions that are all equally diabolical, but diabolical in different ways!

I hate to jump on bandwagons but when it comes to IE I loath it in all of its incarnations – I see no reason why this version or any subsequent versions will be any different as long as everyone indulges MS in their broken dreams of internet domination – I swear that half the time I could believe that they deliberately make their browsers non-compliant just out of pique that their browser does not dominate everything.

Sorry for the long rant, but its only us, the web developers, who can drive IE to compliance or obscurity by not supporting it – Image if Facebook suddenly withdrew support? Would all those IE users stop using Facebook? No! They would install a browser that worked with it!