The blog and the 11% for IE11 landing page both imply that if you complete the challenge, you will win the prizes described.<p>For instance, the blog entry says: "If you can get 11% better page load performance from your site, we'll send you and your team some 11 goodness." I'm no lawyer, but that sounds like a valid unilateral contract to me.<p>Similarly, the landing page says: "Show us how you got 11% better page load performance in your organization's home web page and we'll send you all this goodness."<p>But in the fine print, it says: "The first 11 organizations that meet the qualifications above will each receive the following: 11 pizzas (in the form of a $120 gift card), 11 year-long subscriptions to BrowserStack (ARV $240 each), and 11 copies of Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac (ARV $79 each)."<p>There's a heck of a big difference between "If you do this, we'll give you this" and "If you're one of the first 11 people to do this, we'll give you this."<p>The fact that there will be only 11 prize winners should be made more clear. After all, there is PIZZA on the line. And there's nothing like a pizza bait-and-switch to get developers angry at you.
Am I the only person who is sensitive to JPEG artifacts? Look at this image from the article. Why did they use such low quality JPEG?<p><a href="http://blogs.windows.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-59-33-metablogapi/clip_5F00_image002_5F00_2073DC23.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.windows.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver...</a>
Doesn't make up for the fact that I spent most of my time writing workaround for the stupid rendering bugs their "30% faster" browser introduces. Even just basic CSS layouts and constantly wrong in IE.
Here's a challenge:<p>It would be nice if Microsoft would fix the issues with IE11. Like all the sites that work with IE10, that don't work anymore with IE11. Their solution was to issue an IE11 upgrade blocker with a shitty manual install routine.
"IE11 for Windows 8.1 is our fastest browser yet – 9% faster than IE10 and nearly 30% faster than the nearest competitive browser."<p>30% then what competitive browser?
"IE11 for Windows 8.1 is our fastest browser yet"...and I still don't care, because my user base isn't using IE11.<p>In fact, I'm lucky if they're on IE9.
I would test for IE, but there's no native Mac client outside of virtualization. Until they match Chrome and Firefox, it will be the browser of graceful degradation for me :(
"nearly 30% faster than the nearest competitive browser." - Micro$oft. Absolute crap as can be seen here: <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413632,00.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413632,00.asp</a><p>I'm not loyal at all to <i>any</i> browser. I swop and change (used to use IE, then went to Opera, then Firefox and now to Chrome), but when I hear obvious lies such as IE is 30% faster than any other browser I all of a sudden want to permanently leave IE alone
I noticed it was both obvious and trivial to add a web page to your home screen. Is that also the case on windows phones? Is it the case on any other phone? Or are webapps treated as second class citizens still on phones?
Internet Explorer SUCKS™[1]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrMOBKHqqc8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrMOBKHqqc8</a>