This 'Modern Browser' stuff is getting kind of old. The question is relatively meaningless, but if it were meaningful, the answer would be more complex than something you can diagram in ~5 minutes.
"Modern browser", "open/not open", "killer", "dead", and recently, "Quora" articles can probably be ignored if they're the focus of the title. They're pretty much always petty arguments. I think I'd respect these sort of articles a lot better if they skipped the rhetoric and just focused on their point. "IE is not a modern browser" is a great soundbite, but it also means that's what rebuttal articles will focus on. "IE is holding back the web by not implementing features the majority of other browsers are" is less catchy, but it conveys the actual focus of the article. Sadly, I think most tech journalism would distill an article like that into another meaningless soundbite.
