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Comment by jsiarto | Hacker News Reader

It looks like they are cherry-picking HTML5 features that IE supports, but Mozilla/WebKit don't. But I don't see much of the important stuff like tag support, web workers, geo-location, databases... MS is pretty much full of shit.

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I agree about cherry picking but I would not call them full of shit. The reason being that every product when being developed starts with a limited set of features and then goes on to start new features once the old ones are complete. May be they are at the point where they have implemented everything they are testing but not other stuff hence no tests for them.

Note that they never say that they are most standard compliant browser. They specify the tests they are running and the % of them being passed.

Disclaimer: I know I might get down-voted for this but I work at MS(not in the IE team though :) ). Of course, my opinions are my own and not my employer's.

You're more likely to get downvoted for predicting that you'll get downvoted than for disclosing in good faith that you work at Microsoft. People at HN have strong opinions about tech companies, but they're usually not uncivil.

No offense. MSFT (as a company) has always been full of shit, throughout their history, so even if they are not full of shit (in this case they are, as they are comparing out of date version of other browsers with their preview version of IE, on a test that has been custom made for them), its hard to take them seriously or trust their words in any way, shape or form.

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