The performance boost from IE11 is nice, but the comparisons to other browsers should be taken with a major grain of salt. Because the thing is, every IE release has "beat the competition" in benchmarks leading up to its release (links below).<p>But the thing is, other browsers don't stand still and IE releases are so infrequent, that even if IE really is super-fast at release, within six months it's an also-ran. Maybe Edge will break this pattern? It'd be nice.<p>IE11, from November 2013: <a href="http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Benchmarks/sunspider/Default.html" rel="nofollow">http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Benchmarks/sunspider/Defau...</a><p>IE10, from 2012: <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/internet/140337-ie10-on-windows-7-benchmarked-how-does-it-fare-against-google-chrome" rel="nofollow">http://www.extremetech.com/internet/140337-ie10-on-windows-7...</a><p>IE9, from 2010: <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/03/18/the-new-javascript-engine-in-internet-explorer-9.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/03/18/the-new-javasc...</a>
Exciting stuff. It feels really weird for someone to write a blog in which they discover that 95% of websites use minified JS though. I guess it's nice to see Microsoft making some progress but you have to wonder what's going on over there if they seem to clueless to the state of the modern web.