Introducing IE9... or... We built a new browser that STILL doesn't support all industry standards

Throughout Microsoft Internet Explorer's existance... they've always tried to do things their way.  They're own HTML standards, they're own Javascript, they're own technologies.  Finally, the web community had enough of it... and its slow ass speed and Firefox and Chrome were born.   Both of these newer contenders fully support the web standards as set forth by the W3C.   Microsoft never has.  And IE8 was such a joke of a release that IE9 was already in development nearly immediately after Internet Explorer 8's launch.

IE9's goal was to has a perfect acid test.... which is a test the determines the rendering capabilities of the browser... and how well it's conforming to industry standards.  When IE8 launched it scored a dismal 25 out of 100.  Bare in mind that Chrome and Firefox's browsers score 100/100... and have for MONTHS before IE8's release.   Consequently, Microsoft built a browser that no one was willing to switch to from Chrome or Firefox... and immediately IE9 started development.  After MONTHS, they finally got the test over 50.  OOoh.  (I mean seriously... how difficult is it to take existing web standards to everyone uses and incorporate them into a browser's render capability?)

Now... IE9 Beta is available... acid test results?  95/100 and that's a gift... because the render is NOT smooth (as the test page says it should be)... AND still doesn't support basic CSS3/HTML5 standards... like Border Radius settings (take a look at Twitter.com and see how the corners render in Chrome/Firefox compared to IE9 or earlier).  Also, IE9 is still as cumbersome and slow as ever... though now they try to pawn that off on toolbars... by giving you a dialog box at the start that says "Look how long Google Toolbar took to load, would you like to display it."  It displayed over 2 seconds as the time delay for the toolbar... disable it and guess what... the browser doesn't start 2 seconds faster.   Imaging my surprise...

Sorry Microsoft. IE9 is an improvement... but when you're starting in the basement to begin with, it's hard NOT to have an improvement.  I'm still sticking with Chrome until you join the rest of the party in supporting all the internet standards.  As a web developer, you cause too much anguish in my live to be my main browser.