Comments on: Comic Update: IE Nine Means Business

By: Krzysztof Maczyński

Krzysztof Maczyński — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:21:38 +0000

Your software ate my virtual-reality-helmet tag (in angle brackets) after the hyphen.

By: Krzysztof Maczyński

Krzysztof Maczyński — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:19:55 +0000

Well, I’d like object to work and the media being video (or anything else, as I really don’t think new element types for all possible media is a good idea – , anyone?) to be indicated with MIME type. If I’m going to use video at all, then probably only as fallback from object, and then not really in the document, but rather in XBL’s shadow content, stylistic by definition. video isn’t simpler at all when object is properly supported.

By: Pikadude No. 1

Pikadude No. 1 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:58:34 +0000

So, soon we can post vector graphics and videos with the greatest of ease. No wait, greatest of “e”s. Ha ha.

By: Michael Kozakewich

Michael Kozakewich — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:06:14 +0000

Oh, another note!

Apple apparently (from what I’ve heard) owns Canvas until it’s made into a W3C Recommendation, so Microsoft might not implement it until then, for patent-scare reasons.
I haven’t verified that, though. If it’s true, it would only mean anything if Apple pulled Canvas out of the HTML5 draft or the W3C rejected it.

By: Michael Kozakewich

Michael Kozakewich — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:03:21 +0000

I still don’t think we give IE8 enough credit. Sure, it’s not exactly feature-rich, but anyone who uses it is going to get a good enough experience even for sites where we didn’t specifically design for Internet Explorer. That is to say, it fixed its box model.

If you look at the rate IE has improved, historically, it’ll be leading the industry just as much as the other browsers. It just quit, back in 2001, so it was really four or five years behind.

By: Matthew Fabb

Matthew Fabb — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:47:43 +0000

Unfortunately, currently the IE9 preview has no Canvas tag support and Microsoft has been dodging questions on whether or not they will support canvas in the IE9 timeframe.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/microsoft-embraces-html-5-specification-in-ie9-861?page=0,1
“Asked if Microsoft would support HTML5 Canvas tags in IE9, Hachamovitch said graphics supported in IE9 are GPU-powered and it remains to be seen what else might be supported in that vein.”

By: Kyle Weems

Kyle Weems — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:45:31 +0000

I do mean “complete”.

XP is, for better or worse, getting long in the tooth. But unfortunately, it’s still widely installed. I’m glad I’m not Microsoft when having to make such choices.

And to those XP users: Switch to Win7. It’s hot.

By: SeanJA

SeanJA — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:31:11 +0000

:: The concept of compete “CSS3 Support” is a myth

Me thinks you mean complete, this is great news though… but not so good that it seems it might not be installable on XP making IE 6/7/8 stick around even longer than they really should.

By: trav

trav — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:54:23 +0000

Awesome cartoon, and nice follow-up post. Let me echo your surprise: not all of us have seen Tron? A foundation must be started, with the purpose of bringing the magic that is Tron, to those that have suffered so long without it. Oh, the humanity.

By: Mitchel Tyrell

Mitchel Tyrell — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:00:51 +0000

IE9 video tag should follow standard object fallback principals if this video is any indication:
http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL27

You should be able to start using the video tag now.