I gotta think, they're a bit late to the party, but I think MS have cracked it with IE10.

 

I just discovered they've ditched their old developer tools and replaced them with the same developer tools you get in webkit browsers.

 

All my CSS3 effects work pretty much exactly as intended too, which can't be said for IE9.

 

Overall I think it's pretty solid. Of course if you're not a fan of the interface you'll still stick to Chrome/FF, but in terms of performance and technical ability and CSS3/HTML5 support it either equals or betters other browsers.

 

Also, it's extremely fast. Pages just...appear. Virtually no loading times, and when there are, I suspect they are server side.

 

I would recommend everybody building websites downloads IE10, you need to start testing on it too now. Worth checking your sites, if anything, just to breathe a sigh of relief that M$ finally got it right...

Desktop version is great, still prefer Chrome (although it's getting steadily more and more bloated). Can't say i'm a fan of the Metro version yet but i've not had the opportunity to try it on a touch device yet.

The Metro version does need some work, granted. It's the buggiest of the two. I'd also like one button to view on desktop. I think people will do this a lot, having to bring up a menu first is a little cumbersome.

 

I've found the synching between the two browsers a bit strange, sometimes I will already be logged in, other times I have to manually log in again.

 

Still, I think these are easily resolvable issues.

Agreed but i think they are moving in the right direction, just needs some time to settle in.

Darn, still on XP I really need to get around to upgrading

Overall I think it's pretty solid. Of course if you're not a fan of the interface you'll still stick to Chrome/FF, but in terms of performance and technical ability and CSS3/HTML5 support it either equals or betters other browsers.

Apparently it's still the worst of the lot for HTML5 support, and the same applies to CSS3:

 

 

Can't deny that it does look fast though. There's a lot of hatred of Firefox on the web nowadays, hadn't noticed that before now. It's 'a pure turd', apparently.

There's a lot of hatred of Firefox on the web nowadays, hadn't noticed that before now. It's 'a pure turd', apparently.

 

Yeah there is, even from it's developers http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1090183-firefox-developer-%E2%80%98everybody-hates-firefox-updates%E2%80%99/page__pid__594991787#entry594991787

Yeah, well done Microsoft for taking 6 years to finally catch up to the standards being set by your competitors!

 

Also, great job making the IE10 preview part of the Windows 8 preview release so anyone who wants to try it has to download and install at least 2.5GB of an unstable OS.

Edited July 10, 201214 yr by Spitfire

...download and install at least 2.5GB of an unstable awesome, ground breaking and highly stable release preview OS.

 

Fixed that for you

Yeah, well done Microsoft for taking 6 years to finally catch up to the standards being set by your competitors!

 

Also, great job making the IE10 preview part of the Windows 8 so anyone who wants to try it has to download and install at least 2.5GB of an unstable OS.

 

I really feel for you. You are so hard done by. Life must be a struggle for Spitfire!

Yeah, well done Microsoft for taking 6 years to finally catch up to the standards being set by your competitors!

 

 

 

Which is exactly why and where things have gone wrong. Standards being set by competitors has given rise to so many problems and most complaints that IE doesn't work are because ther browsers bypass standards. Not quite sure it's taken 6 years either.

I'm really intrigued. I'd like to see this take off and shut everyone up about Chrome. I use Firefox with Windows 7 and is easily my favourite - always has been, but will IE10 change this?