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IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

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Re: IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

#11

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

I am not a fan of this UI myself, but it is just a default. You can change this behavior by right clicking on the bar and checking the "Show tabs on a separate row" option.

Re: IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

#13
Still won't run on XP.

But all the other advanced browsers, Chrome, Firefox and Opera will (with hardware acceleration).

(oh and Microsoft forced an OS update yesterday that installed .NET to the useragent in Firefox, AGAIN)

Re: IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

#14
post #7

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…

There is a polyfill out that handles the lack of File API in IE and earlier versions of Safari; http://sandbox.knarly.com/js/dropfiles/.

Also, great list of polyfills available at the Modernizr github repo; https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-brow... .

Re: IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

#15
Awesome, loving they added FileReader and drag-n-drop. Also definitely love that they added media queries, but I thought that was crucial for IE9 so they get no brownie points here.

Now, how about WebGL and WebM? Eh? Eh? Eh. Oh well.

Re: IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

#17
Some of the most interesting work is only hinted at in the blog. IE 10 PP2 now leads on EcmaScript standards conformance.

IE 10 only fails 7 tests compared to 200 for Firefox 5 out of a total of 10000 tests.

I don't use Opera, but according to this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript Opera lags the other browser and fails 3000 tests. Does anyone have Opera and willing to run the conformance test here: http://test262.ecmascript.org/

Re: IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

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post #17

Some of the most interesting work is only hinted at in the blog. IE 10 PP2 now leads on EcmaScript standards conformance. IE 10 only fails 7 tests compared to 200 for Firefox 5 out of a total of 10000 tests. I don't use Opera, but according to this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript Opera lags the other browser and fails 3000 tests. Does anyone have Opera and willing to run the conformance test here: http:/…

FF5 is a production release, IE10 is a "platform preview". Not exactly a fair comparison.

Re: IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

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post #17

Some of the most interesting work is only hinted at in the blog. IE 10 PP2 now leads on EcmaScript standards conformance. IE 10 only fails 7 tests compared to 200 for Firefox 5 out of a total of 10000 tests. I don't use Opera, but according to this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript Opera lags the other browser and fails 3000 tests. Does anyone have Opera and willing to run the conformance test here: http:/…

Opera version 11.50 (most recent) on Win7:

Tests To Run: 10935 | Total Tests Ran: 10935 | Pass: 7061 | Fail: 3874 | Failed To Load: 66

The fast majority (80%) of the error log appears to be in section 15.2.3, with half of the rest also being in section 15. This would imply that around 1/3 of the entire test suite is just in that section of the specification; as the test itself describes, its coverage is currently incomplete.

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