John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Tim Cook wrote:
> > Basically, it grudgingly admits that IE8 is a little bit better in a 
> > particular aspect, then dismissing it as irrelevant, where with any 
> > other browser, any speed increase would be trumpeted as the greatest 
> > thing since sliced breat (especially if it were for a Mac).

> Now you know how Amiga users feel.  When and where the Amiga did things 
> better or faster, it somehow wasn't important... until the Wintel 
> platform caught up.

  I *honestly* think the speed issue *is* mostly irrelevant in this case.

  As I already commented, safety, stability and implementation of standards
vastly overwhelm it in importance. IE has a sad history in this area, and
it's not going to redeem itself overnight. Especially not with something
as irrelevant as being some fractions faster.

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                                                          - Warp

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