Mozilla technical evangelist Paul Rouget tears at Microsoft, arguing that while Internet Explorer 9 is "definitely better than IE8 and a step in the right direction", is not yet a modern browser.
Rouget up his claims by pointing out that Microsoft uses tests created during the development of IE9 as a point of reference do not provide a balanced view of the results.
IE9 supports 99% of the HTML5 specification as suggested by Microsoft? No, I'm actually pretty far from it. Microsoft reference tests are those that have created during the development of IE9. It's not that surprising that pass the tests much they used to design and develop the browser-we score pretty well against our unit-test as well. The primary use case for these tests, however, is to spot regressions and validate code changes. In other words: the tests to ensure that future changes don't break things just built. They actually test all of the elements of a specific standard.
Rouget should therefore step IE9 against Firefox on two different tests of HTML5, and the results are interesting:
The reality is that IE9 is 2 years overdue. Microsoft is pleased to come out .
Even the guys that wrote this evidence came to the same conclusion: Niels Leenheer: ' Microsoft talks about HTML5 but shows very little about, ' caniuse.com IE9RC1: ' [IE9] being roughly on par with Firefox 3.6 '.
Still, better version of IE is not a bad thing.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology, who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology.
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