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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by Encosia on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @01:20AM (#8519653)
+1 for IE's touchscreen support. I keep holding out and using Chrome on my laptop for a few extensions and all of the bookmarks/passwords I have synced over the years, but IE makes Chrome look absolutely kludgy and clunky when it comes to performance and UI these days. It's a shame IE doesn't have a more approachable extensibility model...
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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by wfjackson on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @08:57AM (#8520679)
Rumored to be coming in IE12.

http://www.zdnet.com/how-the-next-version-of-ie-codenamed-sp...

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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by eru on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @02:16AM (#8519745)
Does IE run on anything but Windows these days?

(Edit: Doesn't look like it. Alas.)

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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by SloopJon on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @11:48AM (#8521554)
Not that I've tried that hard, but the most recent IE that I can run under WINE (Crossover Mac) is IE 8.
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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by wlesieutre on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @08:15PM (#8524636)
You could always scrounge up a copy of IE5 for Mac ;)
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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by pjmlp on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @03:43AM (#8519889)
So what? Safari is also stuck in Apple land.
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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by SixSigma on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @09:24AM (#8520791)
Perhaps he means "I don't run windows, can I run I.E. on anything else, like it used to run on Solaris or under Wine"

Some people do exist that have Linux desktop / Android smart device as the only computers we can change.

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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by eru on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @12:01AM (#8525462)
Yes, that makes it harder to try Safari, too.

Firefox, Chrome, Opera and others are not so picky about which operating system they run on.

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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by mdellabitta on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @10:37AM (#8521131)
Safari is available for OS X and Windows.
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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by callahad on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @11:06AM (#8521327)
The Windows version was silently killed last year.
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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by robin_reala on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @11:01AM (#8521286)
Safari on Windows has been abandoned; it’s now 3 versions behind.
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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by wlesieutre on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @05:01PM (#8523554)
And since that includes security patches, probably best to avoid it.
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