Yeah, in the comparisons they did, IE definitely came out on top. But I didn't really have a problem with the attitude of the post, "look at our shitty implementation" is not really worth writing home about.

Not to mention it sounds like they're using it as an excuse as to why it took so long. They should have just done something simple in IE7 and iterated from there.

No, the current IE8 implementation is so far from the best.

This aims to be a future implementation (when IE9 is released) and by that time other browsers will catch up with this implementation.

Isn't this just FUD?