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Checking Out IE9 with a CPA Website Designer

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  • Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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  • Nirav Patel - SEO Professional
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  • Microsoft recently released its next gen version of Internet Explorer, IE9. This was the first new version of Microsoft's web browser in two years. This version is tardy and inadequate. With the dawn of CSS3 and HTML5 something certainly needed to be done. OK, let's take an honest look at how your accounting websites are going to affected by IE9.

    Hardware Acceleration
    One of the biggest improvements that came with the latest version of Internet Explorer was hardware acceleration, but this improvement won't really do us much good in terms of accounting website design. This feature is actually well executed... if you have a machine that will run it. If you have ever played a Facebook game like Farmville, you'll notice that your browser will likely encounter lag or a drop in frames per second (FPS) when you were viewing an area of the game that had a lot of activity. With hardware acceleration this lag or drop in FPS should be reduced or not even happen!

    Flipping a Bird at XP Users
    Even if IE9 offers amazing benefits you may very well not be able to see them on your accounting websites yet. IE9 only works on Windows 7 and Vista. As of February of 2011, Windows XP was still the most widely used OS on the market with a market share of about 41%. Windows Vista is almost unused with only 14% market share, and windows 7 only has about 26%. It makes no sense that IE9 won't work with XP. There are more XP users than Vista and Win 7 combined!

    CSS3 Implementation
    My biggest disappointment is IE9's treatment of CSS3. CSS is very important to web development. It allows designers to declare defaults (fonts, colors, etc) and standards for specific documents. Unlike Hardware Acceleration CSS3 offers a lot of new opportunities in improving the look and feel of your accounting websites. IE9 has completely failed to deliver on CSS3 support. At best it could be called "partial support", but given Microsoft's resources and competitors the word "lame" seems more accurately descriptive. I got pretty excited when I heard that IE9 was bragging about HTML5 and CSS3 support. I honestly believed that Microsoft was going to stop treating it's browser users like a bunch of inept technophobes. Nope.

    I'm sure new functionalities will trickle in as the browser is patched. Truth is I haven't been paying that much attention and by now I should hope some of them already have. We're just using the new standards (which other browsers DO support) and hoping that IE catches up at some point. However, I see no excuse to why Microsoft couldn't integrate the properties of border image, text shadow, and gradients into IE9. These three properties alone would virtually eliminate the need to produce images for certain styles of text that a designer might want to use in a web design.

    Shame on you, Microsoft!

    Rating: 2 stars
    OK, this is a better browser than IE8. That said, as an accounting website designer I'm VERY disappointed. I'm furious that they chose not to support XP; and they're not fooling anyone: this was a choice. The CSS3 support just made me wince. It's only a marginal improvement over IE8 and I honestly think that Microsoft could of done a much better job with it.

    I'm hoping that Microsoft has plans for improvement in the near future, but I rather doubt it. A few weeks ago Microsoft released a preview of Internet Explorer 10. Once again they're using their new browser to trick unsuspecting users into upgrading their Operating System. At this time, IE10 will only be available for the Windows 7 operating system. My advice, don't bother. I mean Vista seriously sucks and that is a good reason for advanced users to upgrade their OS, but the rest of us will be just fine switching browsers.

    For now Internet Explorer is bound to remain a "granny browser". I am going to continue to warn my clients to download and use Firefox, but I'm keeping a close eye on Chrome...

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