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I wish they still included Qbasic. I made an awesome page-flipping space invaders clone when I was in middle school. - Mark Trapp

the good old days... I remember figuring out that there was a non-document mode in Wordstar - Bastard Operator From FF

I used to play that Gorillas game and Nibbles in Qbasic all the time. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

Safari is not included in this chart. I would like to see that as well. - Louis Gray

"Internet Explorer 8 is more compatible with more sites on the Internet than any other browser." That's why Microsoft had to add the Compatibility View. - Ionut

Of course IE8 wins this joke - Jordi Rosell

"Internet Explorer 8 passes more of the World Wide Web Consortium's test cases than any other browser." Citation needed. - Ionut

Is it true that if you use IE8 that it only works with bing? - Thomas Hawk

I want to see the same tests conducted by an un-biased third party. - Kiran Patchigolla

"IE8 also wins the crash test. It's the most crashing browser ever." - Eren Emre Kanal

That's a joke. Even some plain standard JS DOM manipulation that works in FF, Safari + Chrome fails in IE. - Sebastian

Yet another example of "just because someone wrote it down, doesn't make it true." - James Myatt

I'm pretty sure they mean "IE just got around to passing a bunch of old deprecated tests. We win." Also, I've found the IE slices and accelerators aren't all that user friendly. How are newbies supposed to understand what that crap is for? - mrshl

IE works just fine for me. I use chrome, firefox, and IE (chrome the most simply b/c I like google). Speed is a little overrated since the nanosecond difference is barely detectable. People just love to hate IE. To your average everyday internet user, there is nothing wrong with IE. Feel free to flame me. :-) - Matt Soreco

Marshall: Using accelerators only requires enough intelligence to right-click and navigate the ensuing context menu. Slices, yeah, they aren't as user friendly, but they're still stupidly simple to use. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

If it worked on Linux, as do many widely used great softwares, I'd use it 'from time to time': I'm tired of having to reboot just to test how a website looks within IE. Which reminds me.. the 'standards' question. Aw.. sorry ;-)) - Thierry R. Andriamirado from email

other browser's 5x times Javascript speed of IE8 can definitely be detected, it's not nanosecond difference, more like hundreds of milliseconds on complex Javascript applications. Sure, for standard HTML it's fine, but for something like a Zoho app or Gmail, you can tell the difference. For my application, the difference is between rendering 60+ frames per second, and a jerky irritating... more... - Ray Cromwell

What I’m getting at is it’s easy for Microsoft to pitch IE that way because the casual browser user (meaning most users) don’t notice a difference and/or don’t care enough to switch. If you want people to widely adopt chrome or firefox, devs and business need to get the guts to develop content that might not be compatible with IE. Look at the message atop MSN’s game center... more... - Matt Soreco

My point, Charabaruk, is that using these features as IE has set them up, is actually harder for users than Chrome, Firefox or Safari. It virtually requires users to customize their browser. Something Firefox, Chrome, and Safari don't do. Microsoft is pretending that requiring their users to "set up" accelerators and slices is easier than what the competition offers. That's not the case. - mrshl

It may sound strange, but I moved from Chrome to IE8. Page rendering is superfast (better than Chrome), and the whole thing feels more solid than Chrome. Accelerators are nice too. Over long periods of time it's a memory hogger, though. - Kirill Petrovsky

I use just about every browser out there on several OSs but I'd rather be using Chrome all the time. Safari on mac works well, but blows on windows. IE8 starts to fall apart when I have more than 20 tabs open, which is often. I've also had problems with IE8 not caching ssl certs for VPNs. - John

IE8 is the only browser that gives you a bonus dialog during the acid 3 test; it deserves two checks for standards: http://skipall.com/37.jpg - Kelly Norton

On what planet did they test those? - Ozberk Olcer

IE8 developer tools - They are much better then previous IE versions, but I'd take firefox with firebug any day. - Mike Child

Do you think these people notice the difference in browser speeds? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Matt Soreco

@l0ckergn0me As a geek,we must let the developer know, that they made shit. :) - TheHenry

OMG Chris, that is worse than the Stevens Creek app LOL - Mona Nomura

omg sucks - Onur Gündüz

It's quite an inelegant user interface. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Where's the part where it mails your passwords to the developer? - Andrew C

that sucks and blows - BEX

*cries* - Yolanda

I think the designer was blind. - Andrew Trinh

Gyah! All it takes a little bit of effort. - Mo Kargas

But you have to reckon there is not a lot of room for all those words and switched and text fields and pull down menus. They just need to make those screens bigger! And attach a complete keyboard. - Ruud van Wijngaarden