Microsoft’s response to Mozilla’s IE9 opinion
This morning, Mozilla shared its opinion on IE9, demanding an answer to the question “Is IE9 a modern browser?” While they reluctantly recognize IE9 as a “step in the right direction,” they seem to operate with a very narrow concept of what modern ”and I don’t think it coincides with what web developers and end users want to see.
Let me help them define what we think users and developers expect from a “modern browser”:
It seems the others agree with this definition. The discussion on YCombinator starts with this comment:
And Download Squad came to the following conclusion after analyzing the Mozilla article:
To our friends at Mozilla, we admire your passion for an open web and expect continuous competition.
From the translator: I want to note that this is the official reaction of Microsoft, and the opinion of the author of the translation may not coincide with it.
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UPD: Commentary by an expert on IT infrastructure in the Department of Strategic Technologies at Microsoft Ukraine Igor Shastitko :
“Not a single browser can be called modern if it does not have centralized management tools like the 1500 GP, as in IE9. but what to manage Mozilla, chrome, safari? and it is the present - the administrators rushing between computers? very modern! ”
UPD2: Fixed a couple of inaccuracies in the translation. Thank you me76
Let me help them define what we think users and developers expect from a “modern browser”:
- Modern browsers are fast . They take full advantage of the platform for displaying graphics using GPU, compiling and executing JavaScript using multiple CPU cores and provide the speed of web applications that are as close as possible to the speed of native programs.
- Modern browsers provide rich, multifaceted capabilities that until now could only be provided with plug-ins or native applications. They can display video, vector and raster graphics, audio and text easily, without sacrificing performance.
- Modern browsers provide ready-to-implement features, they provide predictable patterns, and developers can be sure that the specifications will not change unexpectedly . Their support does not end with an unfinished implementation, written for passing synthetic tests, but passes a set of tests confirming the performance .
- Modern browsers adopt standards at the early stages of their creation, so that developers can experiment and approve specifications, but clearly delineate unstable functions.
It seems the others agree with this definition. The discussion on YCombinator starts with this comment:
Maybe I'm just weird, but I think that moments like performance, reliability and a stable basis for further development are more important than your browser’s support of a hypothetical “standard”, this ongoing struggle against IE vs. Netscape Based on this, IE is currently the only one of the big three moving in the right direction.
And Download Squad came to the following conclusion after analyzing the Mozilla article:
Do not mislead us, [Firefox] is an excellent browser, but no longer means better .
To our friends at Mozilla, we admire your passion for an open web and expect continuous competition.
From the translator: I want to note that this is the official reaction of Microsoft, and the opinion of the author of the translation may not coincide with it.
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UPD: Commentary by an expert on IT infrastructure in the Department of Strategic Technologies at Microsoft Ukraine Igor Shastitko :
“Not a single browser can be called modern if it does not have centralized management tools like the 1500 GP, as in IE9. but what to manage Mozilla, chrome, safari? and it is the present - the administrators rushing between computers? very modern! ”
UPD2: Fixed a couple of inaccuracies in the translation. Thank you me76
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/113942/
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