Don’t take this the wrong way. I don’t hate Microsoft, but some times on occasion they do something like this that just seems a little odd or dishonest. Now i’m a firm believer in browser choice, so far be it for me to tell you not to use Internet Explorer, but Internet Explorer has for the longest time been the worst rendering engine for all things HTML.

Now Microsoft claims, that’s all been turned around, and everyone except IE isn’t capable of rendering Today’s web. I did my own testing however and as you’ll see from the results, ie9 is far from caught up with today’s market.

Kudos to them for making a vast improvement on the Trident engine, (before ie 9 the acid3 score peaked at a measley 12 with internet explorer 8 and I believe before that it was 11, and 9 for ie 7 and 6 respectively, so this is great). I really am glad they are making some effort to catch up with the market, but i’d prefer if they didn’t do it while defaming webkit and gecko, both of which are leaps ahead of trident still. At the very least, they could have shown the Acid 3 results from the web standards project.

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