Will Web developers be swayed by IE9's under-the-hood changes?

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It doesn't matter what Microsoft does or how "good" IE 9 will be, us web developers will still develop in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari first, then switch to IE 7,8,9,... to "see how broken it is" and fix it.

Microsoft has given us nothing at all to help earn any sort of trust back that they care about web standards. Not that it isn't possible, but I'll have to see it to believe it, and after so many years of IE6, they have a huge hill to climb.

More than that, the tools that are available to develop with in IE are useless at best. Launching the developer tools in IE8 has a 50/50 chance of crashing your app and when you finally get it open it looks like an intern built it with their first time in Visual Studio. Aside from that, IE doesn't run in OS X or Linux.

So no, I won't be coding my pages against IE ever.

I think it's interesting that an article about the good parts of IE 9 still triggers complaints about IE 6. It really was that awful.

Wouldn't the point be we can write the same HTML5 we are using on WebKit and get the same results? That would probably sway designers.

It's really crazy that they advertise the 55/100 that they score on the acid test on their home page. They even give you a button to test your own browser. FF was 94/100.

That's a stupid question if it's standards compliant then web development will be browser neutral, the whole point is to not develop for a certain browser.

I think the question is not whether we will be swayed to develop for a particular browser, but rather (as a commmenter stated earlier) it will end the trend of developing "in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari first, then switch to IE 7,8,9,... to "see how broken it is"

Hopefully it will.

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