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How Microsoft rewrote its IE9 browser from scratch (geekwire.com)
2 points by hankejh 5570 days ago
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ecaron 5570 days ago
There is no way the browser was rewritten "from scratch". If it were rewritten from scratch, the issues that crashed its predecessors (like http://crashie8.com) would not also crash IE9.
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hankejh 5567 days ago
Heh -- you mean to say that shitty HTML coding caused a problem in IE8. Did you even try it in IE9? I get this from crashie8.com (note -- no crash):

--- Internet Explorer has stopped trying to restore this website. It appears that the website continues to have a problem.

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justanotheratom 5567 days ago
..and still didn't end up with Chrome.
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hankejh 5567 days ago
thank god -- I wish it worked on my end, but I'm endlessly forced to empty cache in Chrome to avoid broken images, stalled scripts, etc. -- which makes it altogether unusable.
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