Kudos to Microsoft for putting some real effort into bringing some exciting standards support into IE9, as announced yesterday in MIX.
It is however, not right to mislead.
IE’s test manager Jason Upton published a list of standards tables highlighting the achievements in the form of a comparison table. Way to go, everything passes in IE9!
First you create tests, then you submit your test. Lastly you make sure you pass all your tests (which you obviously will). Finally to make it all roses and rainbow, you create a table which shows all the tests you have submitted and passed, and plaster FAIL over those next to you.
You really thought that IE9 is from the future. that is until…….
The tabs below provide details and links to each of the tests we submitted to the various W3C working groups to help the web become more interoperable. Here is a summary of the current results across each of the major browsers running on Windows:
This clearly means that the table only shows test cases which Microsoft submitted, not all test cases in all the different suites.
For starters, according to Codedread’s SVG 1.1 test IE9 preview has less than 30% pass rate, as compared to Opera 10.50’s 94%. In other words, the 31 tests that IE9 passed only constitute (at most) 30% of the entire suite.
As for CSS3 Borders and Background, IE9 tested largely against border-radius, border-radius is one of many properties in CSS Borders & Background. There are many more to Borders & Background, such box-shadow, border-image, background-clip, background-clip and the likes. Microsoft also forgot the other CSS3 specsifications. Where is transitions, 2D transform and the likes?
We look forward seeing great standards supports from Microsoft, and also a more representative table of the standards spectrum.
