Re:The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
by Encosia on Thursday February 26, 2015 @07:28PM
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To second what Navarr said, I don't really see IE issues these days unless it's on a site that needs to support versions prior to IE9. As often as not, issues in modern IE are due to developers writing code that targets only a single vendor-prefixed version of an API instead of supporting standards, which makes IE look deficient (instead of that sloppy developer) even when it has good support for the APIs that a site uses.
Re:The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
by Turing_Machine on Thursday February 26, 2015 @11:41PM
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To name just one thing that IE still doesn't support: setting the download attribute on a link. Neither does Safari.
This makes it very clumsy/impossible to write real web apps that need to save to the local file system. The scenario is generating a document client-side using JavaScript. Now you want to let the user save it. In Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and no doubt others, this isn't a problem. Just set the download attribute on the link to the file name you want to use.
Re:The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
by Encosia on Friday February 27, 2015 @12:57AM
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You can use this API onclick to do the same thing: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh673542%28v=vs....
Now, let's talk about Chrome's pointer events support...
Re:The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
by spacemanmatt on Thursday February 26, 2015 @06:27PM
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I'm glad I looked up rule 34 real quick; I don't expect there's porn of this.
What's actually involved here is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Re:The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
by Navarr on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:23PM
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These days most of my bugs are Firefox acting differently than I expect it to (though perhaps compliant to standards).
I haven't really had to say "IE Issue" unless I was dealing with 8 and lower.
Re:The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
by the_cat_kittles on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:52PM
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web audio api :/
I guess a lot of it hinges on your interpretation of the words "competitive" and "parity".
I'm hoping that it means the expression "IE issue" gradually becomes the exception rather than the norm.