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First official HTML5 tests topped by...Microsoft

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 3 comments
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The Worldwide Web Consortium has released the results of its first HTML5 conformance tests, and according to this initial rundown, the browser that most closely adheres to the latest set of web standards is...Microsoft Internet Explorer 9. Yes, the HTML5 spec has yet to finalized. And yes, these tests cover only a portion of the spec. But we can still marvel at just how much Microsoft's browser philosophy has changed in recent months.

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Comments (3)

tracyanne ·
Quoting:Yep.....IE is the winner - apparently. But in the back of my mind is the niggling question: How secure is IE compared to the other browsers ? So far, it's an unanswered question.


http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/two-year-old-data-leakage...

Two-year-old data leakage flaw still haunts Internet Explorer
Ridcully ·
Thanks tracyanne......I had a look and did the double take and "oops", wrong topic for the thread. I'm not really surprised by your comment; I had a feeling this would be the case with IE9. Still a leaky sieve, but wiser heads than mine know why.
jsusanka ·
these are still all preview releases and really doesn't mean anything till they are production.

microsoft can do all the want in the dev world but we will see when the rubber meets the road.

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