IE is the slowest AJAX browser
I really hoped that IE7 with it's new XMLHTTP engine (AJAX engine if you will), would out perform the old IE 6 by far. IE 6 is the slowest of the main browsers out there. Firefox and Opera is much faster processing AJAX. I really don't know why. Is it the transport to and from the server or is it simply just the html rendering performed by JavaScript? Maybe it's the DOM handling? I don't know. The end result on the other hand, I know very well. I'm an IE man and have always been, but I find it to be the first truly negative thing that distances IE from the other browsers. Could this be the drop that makes my glass of IE water run over its edges and make me turn to the public enemy numero uno, Firefox...?
I imaging this would be corrected before the final release of IE 7. The beta 2 has a lot of issues concerning JavaScript and CSS that also needs fixing. If these things gets fixed in the final release, Internet Explorer could be the best browser out there for the first time in many years.