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Benchmarking Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 82009.01.27 15:24 by LeftyMicrosoft is out with a preliminary version of Internet Explorer 8, a Web browser with an assortment of nifty-sounding new features. If the browser succeeds in reversing the decline in the company’s share of the browser market, it may not be because IE8 is the speediest window on the Web out here. Soon after the browser came out, the techies at ZDnet Australia ran IE8 through some performance tests. In one test that measures how speedily the JavaScript programming language within Web browsers performs, IE8 came in last, behind Opera, Firefox and Google’s Chrome browser. It’s unclear whether its relative pokiness will matter to most Web surfers. IE8 has a handful of features that might save users time in other ways. In an interview, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer at Microsoft, said the JavaScript test measures one “super narrow aspect of overall performance,” which can also be affected by how quickly the browser finds the network, renders HTML and executes other tasks. In Microsoft’s own tests visiting the most popular Web pages on the Internet, Hachamovitch says, IE8 is speeder than other browsers some of the time, while some Web pages load more quickly in other browsers. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/01/27/benchmarking-microsofts-internet-explorer-8/
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