Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”
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Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”
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maybe even this will be gone by the time the final version comes out.
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#4this is good news. it will no longer stop IE users from visiting those sneaky sites who block users for using IE. it also makes it clear that Microsoft is finally serious about making a good browser that people WANT to use. now if they make their developer tools anywhere as good as firebug they'll have a winner. hiring some of the firebug team might be a good idea.
Re: Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”
#5this is good news. it will no longer stop IE users from visiting those sneaky sites who block users for using IE. it also makes it clear that Microsoft is finally serious about making a good browser that people WANT to use. now if they make their developer tools anywhere as good as firebug they'll have a winner. hiring some of the firebug team might be a good idea.
It seems they are in fact making some major upgrades to the developer tools, as described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/bg182632(v=vs.85)...
Some of it appears to be parity with existing dev tools for other browsers, but it looks like some very welcome improvements.
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#6TL;DR
MS doesn't want isIE() javascript functions to return true for IE11. While feature detection is a better practice than browser detection, you can search for "Trident" in the user agent string instead of "MSIE" if you must.
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#7If they change the UA, why didn't they take this opportunity to get rid of these ridiculously long UA's that mention competing browser brand names, and just make their UA string the following:
"Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv 11.0"
Re: Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”
#8If they change the UA, why didn't they take this opportunity to get rid of these ridiculously long UA's that mention competing browser brand names, and just make their UA string the following: "Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv 11.0"
Because apparently lots of websites still (mistakenly) check for "Mozilla" and "Gecko".
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Nope. IE Conditional Comments were removed in IE10. http://www.sitepoint.com/microsoft-drop-ie10-conditional-com...
Re: Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”
#10Correct me if I'm wrong. If a web developer is hell-bent on detecting ie, they could look for the presence of the activex API (like jQuery currently does in order to provide a uniform AJAX interface).