While I would be incredibly happy to hear that IE switched to webkit. 95/100 is a great ACID3 score. And they explained why a few of the points weren't made. ACID3 just tests things that browsers usually get wrong. Not necessarily things that are in that high demand to be used by Web Developers.

IE9 is an amazing step-up from IE8 so far and I think we should all be patting them on the back. I'm sure dealing with Microsoft policies and playing catchup to the other browsers is no easy task. And the team is doing a great job trying to modernize IE9.

> IE9 is an amazing step-up from IE8 so far and I think we should all be patting them on the back.

A boss once told me "you don't get rewarded for doing your job - you get paid." :)

Sure, but you don't work for that guy anymore, do you?

Heh, no. And he was a major factor in my resignation. We were all pretty sure he fit the clinical definition of psychopath.

My boss screamed at his phone today. I wondered if he realised he'd just set all the employees on edge and lost maybe 2+ person-hours of work for the rest of the day - traded for the momentary release of an angry outburst.

Similarly, your boss might have been technically correct, but a boss who would rather be right, make a point and potentially knock your morale, than boost your morale for free should really be rethinking his approach, IMO.

It's funny to see them making those remarks regarding Acid3 and having "tests" result on the same page showing how IE9 is has the best support for HTML5, CSS3. (Hint: it's best at passing MS tests, some of which are really obscure).

95/100 is better than the current Firefox, so they're not exactly "a couple of years behind everyone else." Only WebKit and Opera have perfect ACID3 scores.

I don't see any support for SVG filters, and I was using them 3 years ago in Firefox.

Firefox's SVG implementation doesn't even support animation, and they've no roadmap for implementing it. Lame.

Yeah, using Firefox's SVG implementation was not a good example:

https://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/

"Big areas of the SVG specification where we're still lacking include filters, svg defined fonts, and declarative animations. A page listing the current implementation status of svg elements and the rendering backends can be found at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/status.html.

It really irks me when I hear comments like this. It seems as if MS can't win as far as some people are concerned.

I think this is a great article that demonstrates MS's commitment and enthusiasm to pushing their browser forward.

I'm excited about IE9. I think that MS could win even with the haters, if MS keeps up the good work for a few years. For them, a one-off IE9 might be impressive, but not enough to make up for the suffering of IE6.

Internet Explorer 8 came out in March 2009. IE7 in 2006. Microsoft are keeping it up.

It mentioned somewhere else that the five failing tests are all SVG tests and probably won't become standards because they are redundant.

SVG Fonts is superseded by WOFF. SVG Animation is superseded by CSS Annimations.