No, because they were jingoistic and myopic. IE9 is a decent browser (by all measures superior to Firefox) and IE10 looks to be better. Your blind platform hatred is showing.
http://html5test.com/results.html
Google Chrome 16.0 => 373
Mozilla Firefox 9.0 => 330
Opera 11.60 329 => 9
Apple Safari 5.1 => 302
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 => 141
That's an opinion, not fact. I'd appreciate if you explain why you think so.
No, because they were jingoistic and myopic. IE9 is a decent browser (by all measures superior to Firefox) and IE10 looks to be better. Your blind platform hatred is showing.