Are you just guessing or you know this as fact?. If there's anyone who don't know anything, that's you. Quoting what others are saying about IE instead of trying it out.[/quote] I was using the platform preview before you probably ever heard of it. Quoting others means quoting people you probably never heard of either, such as Henri Sivonen, Jeff Schiller, Andy Clarke, Dave Storey and magazines you don't read, like ArsTechnica plus the link in my sig. It's obvious you didn't look at it or you don't understand it. Find ONE online site that isn't related to Microsoft that explains how IE9 is technically the most advanced browser, or even tied with the others, and I will grovel at your feet. Such effort will be wasted because I've already supplied links by well known sources proving it is not. So far you've given your personal opinion yet expressed no opinion about IE9 has no CSS transitions or animation effects, SVG support is incomplete, no support for flexbox, DOM support is incomplete and not at the same point as others, (I need to find my list of IE9 failures). ALL other browsers had such support months, even years and decades, ago. So you want me to lie and put a blindfold on so I don't see the truth? Do you want to be kept in my dark by Microsoft's PR department? Do you like being blindly lead around by the nose and eat whatever they feed you? You don't want the truth because you can't handle the truth? IE9 is inept and incompetent. Only people who don't know anything about the web use it cause they don't know better. IE holds back the web.
I know for fact that you didn't use IE9 because if you had used IE9, you won't be quoting others in IE's criticism. For last 5 days all you are saying is that IE is 2 years behind etc. Same couple of lines which you have repeated again and again, it tells me that you have not used it. And Again all the facts that you are mentioning are taken from Twitter. Like I said earlier, you have some personal issues with IE and Microsoft. All the guys you have mentioned, I don't mind what they say, since I am using IE9 without any problems. I am not saying that what these people are saying is wrong, IE 9 is not perfect. Some people might like IE9 some may think it sucks, you need to respect that. You can't go around saying that people who like IE don''t know anything about web etc. If you have used it and you didn't like it then its fine. We are not complaining then why you have problems when someone like IE9.
That's because I don't have time to look into the deeper, immediate details that others have time for. I'd rather code than duplicate the effort of others. Repeating a line means I haven't used it? How so? Besides, if you read the ArsTechnica article (or was it CNET?) they say the same thing. Plus, if you look up the info in the link in my sig, you can verify it yourself. That is, if you understand the technical aspect of this. Even though I quoted Ars above? And the Twitter info from members of Webkit and the W3C don't matter? I'm correct when I said you wouldn't recognize any of the names I mentioned above. Again, calling a crap browser a crap browser seems unfair to you? As I outlined above. In fact, it is years behind all the others. This is your misunderstanding of the point I'm trying to make. You think I'm complaining about the user interface and general operation of IE9. I am not. Such things are personal preference and they are why I don't recommend one of the other browsers over the other. I am complaining about the technical details of what IE9 can and cannot do. Things related to HTML, CSS, Javascript, the DOM, SVG and so on. It is in the technical arena that IE9 fails to approach the abilities of any other browser. And due to these shortcomings, developers, such as myself, must either spend additional time/money to work around the issues or not use such features at all. I could care less about whether you like how fast a browser starts up or its bookmarking features or any such thing as that. Personal preference. But when IE9 prevents me from using CSS transitions while every other browser handles them just fine, I have a problem with that. And when people follow Microsoft's "What a beautiful web now that IE9 is here!" line without the realization that IE9 makes the developer's job harder, I have problems with those lies, too.
I am using FF 3.6.10 and it does not do css transitions. Only Chrome will for me. I hear Safari and Opera will as well.
CSS Transitions are in FF4 which will be out soon (November?). All the other browsers have it now. IE9 will NOT have this which means you'll have to wait for IE10. When will that come out? 3 years? 5 years? IE9 will NOT have CSS animations, or geolocation, or flexbox, or border images or multi-column layout or MathML or .... But wait till IE10! That's gonna be better (as we hear every time a new version of IE comes out).