IE9 rubbished by Mozilla

By Thomas Watson on February 16, 2011 | 9 comments

Microsoft's new browser given the thumbs-down by Mozilla evangelist

A senior evangelist at Mozilla has thrown cold water over Microsoft's claims that IE9 is at the cutting edge of browser technology.

Speaking on his blog, Paul Rouget asks "Is IE9 a modern browser?", and replies with an emphatic "NO", before presenting a wealth of stats to back up his claim.

Just a week after the launch of the IE9 release candidate, Rouget claims that, while IE9 is a significant improvement over previous versions of Microsoft's browser, it has arrived on the scene two years too late.

9 comments

Comment: 1

Microsoft's always playing catch-up (when it comes to browsers.) Hopefully, this time, they are not lagging that far behind everyone else.

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Comment: 2

I could see a link to the blog mentioned.
http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/ie9/

Comment: 3

"couldn't" even!

Comment: 4

Perhaps not totally surprising that Mozilla want to rubbish IE. After all, Firefox has been left standing rather by Chrome recently and they're feeling under threat.

It might have been fairer to post a link to Microsoft's response too.

Comment: 5

FrostAndFire lets not try and assume Mozilla's intentions here. The facts speak for themselves regardless of who said them. With all the chest-beating by Microsoft over IE9 I was incredibly surprised at the significant list of missing HTML5 and CSS3 features - no Offline application cache? No CSS Gradients? No HTML5 Forms? Why would any developer want to work with IE9 as a platform?

Comment: 6

"Why would any developer want to work with IE9 as a platform?"

Because, unfortunately, IE is still the general standard. I get on my soapbox whenever someone says they use IE, however, when most the general public buys PC (which comes with Windows/IE), there are just some people that don't want to get THAT involved with their computing experience. This means, as a developer, you have to develop for the general public.

Comment: 7

It's Funny how Microsoft never mind they own products, and to be honest I just dropped it, if Microsoft with they powerful nerd army don't mind about they costumers why should we. The people who wants a better internet experience already migrate to other browsers, and for the sake of argument when I start a new business I show my costumers how life on the internet can be better without IE, and they all go for it.

Comment: 8

@pdcvg unfortunately customers don't think that way. As a designer/developer you need to cater for the wider market and not bottleneck your audience. to do so means thats the mass majority of your visitors don't get the experience the website was designed for!
Design for IE and expand for real browsers! :)

Comment: 9

Its unfortunate that even as Microsoft tries to kill its "bastard child" IE6, it keeps spawning more unsavoury and web-unstandard offspring such as IE7, IE8 and IE9. Maybe the lesson is that microsoft should stop having children already.

Microsoft's new browser given the thumbs-down by Mozilla evangelist

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