Browser comparisons

More comparisons among browsers… Six Revisions has performed some tests to the most important browsers.
The tools used to perform these tests are:

  • SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark
  • SlickSpeed (jQuery values reported)
  • Numion stopwatch
  • CSS Rendering Benchmark
  • Resource Monitor

And this is the result they came up with:

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Tired of IE’s issues? Turn it into Google Chrome

As web programmers, we’ve all dealed with IE’s incompatibility issues and its sluggishness, and I can assure that 99% of all of us are tired of how stubborn Microsoft is about not implementing web standards and trying to enforce its own private ways of doing things (although with the release of Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft has showed a bit of effort in trying to be more standards compliant). How much time have we wasted on writing workarounds for IE for code that works seamlessly in other browsers?

Well, Google seems to be worried about this as well, and now gives us one more possibility to solve the problem: turn Internet Explorer into Google Chrome.

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