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Microsoft blatantly lies about IE9 compared to Chrome and Firefox

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"Compatibility mode to view websites designed for older browsers" has IE9 checked, but not FF or Chrome.

I was about to say something snarky but I think this just speaks for itself.

This seems like exactly the type of submission that HN should NOT have. If you want to editorialize, please write a blog post and submit that.

You just wasted 20s of my day. The bill is in the mail!

I think the page speaks for itself, no need for a blog post to explain it, that would be blog spamming IMO.

Your opinion would be wrong. The page doesn't speak for itself. I looked at it and have no idea what you're talking about. Now maybe there are some specific items in that page which you're referencing, but you certainly don't make that clear.

Then again, your submission got upvoted. So clearly the brains at Hacker News agree with you.

Here's what a firefox dev said about it:

* "Combined search and address bar" type "firefox is awesome" in your url bar

* "Reopen accidentally closed tabs" ctrl-shift-t anyone? History, recently closed tabs/windows

* let's fix this: "Full hardware acceleration for text, graphics, and video provided by default" in beta5

* "Domain name highlighting in the address bar to alert you to deceptive websites" go to https://paypal.com, and see

* "Developer tools built into the browser" You're right, but, well, I think Firebug is not that hard to install

* "Compatibility mode to view websites designed for older browsers" IE Tab anyone?

* "H.264-encoded HTML5 video support" what about OGG/Theora and WebM?

* "Most protection against socially engineered malware" Wait, what?

* "Protection from malicious cross-site scripting attacks" What is that one?

source: http://twitter.com/paulrouget

Also chrome has had reopen tabs for a while (so that's a lie, among others) and chrome 7 does have hardware acceleration, it would be more fair to compare a beta version of IE with a beta version of Chrome don't you think? This table is a mixed of lies and disingenuous statements, shame on them.

If you're going to accuse someone of blatantly lying, you really should specify what you are accusing them of lying about.

I totally agree: after all, everyone knows Chrome 6 has the best protection against phishing, and it's Firefox 4.0 Beta 3 that has the best XSS protection. </snark>

Is the title a reference to hardware acceleration? The chart is technically accurate, according to a cursory search I just did. Apparently Firefox got hardware acceleration in Beta 4, and the chart is looking at Beta 3. Chrome is getting it in 7.

I think this is the most ridiculous part:

"Supports standards both commonly used today and for building tomorrow’s websites, including HTML5"

I like it because it's so vague/loose/general... like most corporate-marketing-bullshit.

Firefox 4.0: no support for "Reopen accidentally closed tabs"? 3.x supports this, not sure about 4.x but seems like a feature that wouldn't be dropped.

Yawn, just the usual Microsoft FUD. I don't even bother to read it anymore.

Take it as a lesson to learn to smile about it ;-)

You just have to love those kinds of comparisons: apparently no browser on earth has anything IE9 doesn't have.

Or wait, they wouldn't leave anything out on purpose, would they?

Support for the most widely used OS in the world perhaps?

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