The browser war, started back in the earlier part of this decade has only intensified with newer additions such as Google Chrome and the maturing Opera. With the release of Internet Explorer 8 many envisioned a standards compliant browser that will finally match the speeds of it’s third party counterparts. However according to the recent tests conducted this seems not to be the case.

The tests conducted were only tests of the rendering speed of javascript, html, and browser standards compliance. It seems as though from these results that Internet Explorer 8 has once again failed to meet w3c standards, where as all the other three browser maintained a healthy ability to comply with established internet standards.

In terms of rendering speed, once again IE8 fails quite dismally against the other browsers. IE8 seemed to fail completely in the Dromaeo test, probably due to its outdated engine that has’nt been updated to frequently since it’s IE6 days.

Browser choice is a personal choice, however in todays ever increasingly online world a good browser does matter and does makes a big difference on how one interacts with the internet. Perhaps the familiriaty of the defualt browser would suffice to some, and the speed and security of an open source browser to others. At the end of it all compitition spurs innovation, and innovation spurs development. Without it we would probably all still be stuck with the antique they call IE6, or maybe not.

Tags: Browser, Chrome, Desktop, Explorer, firefox, GUI, Open Source, Software, Web

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