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IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

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Re: IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

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Post by ary »

Has there been a formal announcement from Microsoft on what the IE release schedule will be going forward? It seems the competition from the likes of Firefox and Chrome has accelerated IE's roadmap.

Re: IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

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Post by dave1010uk »

IE's rate of adopting new features seems to be catching up with the other browsers. For technical details, see their Guide for Developers [1].

The interesting bits since the 1st preview (for me, a web developer) are:

    More CSS gradients
    Async script tags
    Form validation
    Web workers
    Drag and drop and File API
Things I'd really like to see in IE10 before its released (and are hopefully realistic):

    More HTML5 form stuff
    CSS3 text shadow
    CSS3 animations and transitions
    History API
As I'm wishing away, I'll add: support for XP, WebM/Ogg video support and a friendly public bugtracker.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/gg192966.aspx

Re: IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

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Post by kenjackson »

dave1010uk wrote: post #5

IE's rate of adopting new features seems to be catching up with the other browsers. For technical details, see their Guide for Developers [1]. The interesting bits since the 1st preview (for me, a web developer) are: More CSS gradients Async script tags Form validation Web workers Drag and drop and File API Things I'd really like to see in IE10 before its released (and are hopefully realistic): More HTML5 form stuff…

I agree that those four items you mentioned I think would make IE10 a very competent browser. Do you have any idea how hard they each are to implememnt (since they've all been implemented in existing browsers)?

Regarding XP support -- I hope they never support it. I really wish the OS would go away. They do support WebM today, just install the codec. Presumably if you have Chrome on your machine, WebM will work with IE (I assume Chrome installs the codec). Given that IE is not open source, you will almost certainly never see a public bugtracker.

Re: IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

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Post by rkalla »

Big win here (for me) was the File API finally got added so you can do DnD uploads now. IE has actually supported the DnD API for a while now, but didn't have the File API component to make the upload happen.

Rendering speed didn't seem much different than 9 and slower than Chrome 12 for me; not by much though. Now adays it seems all these browsers are rendering at insane speeds given what they could barely pull off 5 years ago.

I love the browser wars.

Re: IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

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Post by sliverstorm »

kenjackson wrote: post #6
dave1010uk wrote: post #5

IE's rate of adopting new features seems to be catching up with the other browsers. For technical details, see their Guide for Developers [1]. The interesting bits since the 1st preview (for me, a web developer) are: More CSS gradients Async script tags Form validation Web workers Drag and drop and File API Things I'd really like to see in IE10 before its released (and are hopefully realistic): More HTML5 form stuff…

I agree that those four items you mentioned I think would make IE10 a very competent browser. Do you have any idea how hard they each are to implememnt (since they've all been implemented in existing browsers)? Regarding XP support -- I hope they never support it. I really wish the OS would go away. They do support WebM today, just install the codec. Presumably if you have Chrome on your machine, WebM will work with…

Agreed on XP. It's just a complete dead-end waste of effort at this point. XP is already 11 years old, and two major releases have happened since. Even RHEL2 is newer!

It was plenty good 6 years ago, but time marches on.

Re: IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

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Post by skymt »

skeletonjelly wrote: post #9

Did they fix that godawful UI with regards to squeezing in the url bar next to the tabs?

IE's platform previews are simply minimal-chrome wrappers around the rendering engine. You'll need to wait until an IE 10 beta appears to find out what they've done to the UI.
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