Clashing Scores In the HTML5 Compatibility Test Wars 203
Andreas(R) writes "Microsoft has published a set of HTML5 tests comparing Internet Explorer 9 to other web browsers. In Microsoft's own tests, IE9 performs 100% on all tests. However, the Internet Explorer 9 HTML5 Canvas Campaign has published results that show that Internet Explorer gets 0% on all their tests." The results reported here are selected with tongue in cheek: "Therefore, we'll also present shameless results from tests which have been carefully selected to give the results that the PR department has demanded."
IE has 100% compatability... (Score:5, Funny)
...with MS HTML# 5.0
Microsoft fakes test results to favor themselves! (Score:2, Funny)
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Sex analogy (Score:3, Funny)
That's like saying slashdotters are 100% successful sexually.
If the tests that include the opposite sex are excluded.
Re:Build Your Own Test (Score:2, Funny)
You can come up with whatever perventage you want from those charts as some things (Video) might be deal breakers compared to others (MathML).
i avoid high schools to keep my perventage low.
Re:Build Your Own Test (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Build Your Own Test (Score:5, Funny)
I am sure Microsoft is able to become an inoperability leader.
Fixed that for ya!.
Yeah it's old, but it's good.
Re:Sex analogy BLAH WHATEVER (Score:3, Funny)
Re:IE has 100% compatability... (Score:5, Funny)
Aha, success! (Score:4, Funny)
We have a winner! :D
Cheers,
My favorite part of the "Canvas Campaign"... (Score:5, Funny)
Discussion of test results
Based on the tests that we have performed, it is very clear that there is a very big difference between the best and worst browsers. Therefore we can only conclude that the results are valid and true.
Now if that isn't a rigorous application of the scientific method I don't know what is!
Re:IE has 100% compatability... (Score:4, Funny)
It doesn't claim that those tests either represent the whole of the HTML5 spec or any draft thereof, or even that they test behavior required by the spec or any draft thereof, or even -- except by implication -- that passing them indicates behavior that is acceptable under some draft of the HTML5 spec.
In Australia (where I am from) an advertisement needs to either have a disclaimer (normally small text at the bottom) if there is vagueness about what it is saying, or what the advertisement says needs to be taken at face value - meaning "what it implies".
Surely the US would have that too?
Re:It's also worth mentioning... (Score:1, Funny)
...that they benchmarked IE trunk against OLD versions of other browsers. They didn't even use Chrome 5.0!
Could happen to anyone!
Yesterday I read on Slashdot that Chrome 2.0 was just released.
Re:New MS, Same as the old... (Score:5, Funny)
Wait, Microsoft is Captain Kirk now?
Bald.. check.
Fat.. check.
Arrogant.. check.
Seems so..
Re:Sex analogy BLAH WHATEVER (Score:3, Funny)
His Analogy would hit that bullseye, then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
Re:Sex analogy BLAH WHATEVER (Score:5, Funny)
Well, Bad Analogy Guy is kind of like a car. And the radio only gets two stations on AM, but there's an eight track with a copy of "Journey's Greatest Hits" stuck in it. If you look at it that way then this discussion is something like an eight hour drive from Tulsa, OK to one of the Portlands. I can't remember which one, but it's eight hours away by car. Now the car has wood grain paneling on the right side and some kind spray-on granite countertop on the left, so the driver can lean out of the window and chop tomatoes as long as the passenger leans over to take the wheel.
The rest of us are the two pedigreed schnoodles sitting in the back seat, trying to eat bacon and egg sandwiches.
Does that answer your question?
Re:IE has 100% compatability... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:IE has 100% compatability... (Score:3, Funny)
Marketing department has issued a correction to your statement.
"Bad ass software."
Sign me up!
Re:New MS, Same as the old... (Score:5, Funny)
So Kirk's jilted speech - that's just him swapping out to disk?
IE9 installed base: zero (Score:3, Funny)
Microsoft should shut up and ship.