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Microsoft Releases IE10 Platform Preview 2

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-a-look-at-this dept.

BogenDorpher writes "Microsoft today has announced the availability of the second platform preview for its upcoming browser, Internet Explorer 10. The first platform preview was released in April. This new platform preview contains the same HTML5 engine seen in the recent public Windows 8 demos."

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  1. link is blogspam by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 5, Informative

    Instead of the blogspam link you could have linked the official page that has far more useful information than useless article on the submitter's blog.

  2. Re:IE10 Selling Point by Billly+Gates · · Score: 2

    ""It's better than a sharp stick in the eye, walking on hot coals and being eaten alive by a Burmese Python of unusual size ... just."" ... and that is more tollerable than Firefox 5 with lots of plugins.

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  3. Re:IE10 Selling Point by DemonGenius · · Score: 2

    Here's one:

    "Internet Explorer: the only single platform web browser in existence."

    Actually, not a selling point, but many people would take the above as something good anyway.

  4. Re:Play the game another way. by Canazza · · Score: 2

    IE will always need hacks so long as Microsoft clings to it's JScript interpretation of Javascript, especially with DOM Events handling. It's code is IDENTICAL to the W3C standard except it changed the name and the parameters sent in (like 'onclick' instead of 'click') and while most JS librarys worth their salt replace the event model wholesale (like JQuery) it's still a hurdle to overcome.

    I'm not much of a designer so I can't speak for the CSS compatability first hand, but my designer co-worker assures me that there are some parts of the CSS spec that IE 9 still doesn't do that he would love to use. (Something about border images) but it seems like most of the CSS spec is implimented in some form or another.

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  5. Re:I'll have to try that out... by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did you forget to add deb.microsoft.com to your /etc/apt/sources.list, by chance?

  6. Re:It seems... by Grishnakh · · Score: 2

    I read somewhere that Microsoft plans to update IE annually.

    So in 10 years, does that mean they'll be up to IE version 20? The only other software I can think of that has a major version number of >=20 is emacs.

  7. Re:Play the game another way. by theArtificial · · Score: 2

    I'm not much of a designer so I can't speak for the CSS compatability first hand, but my designer co-worker assures me that there are some parts of the CSS spec that IE 9 still doesn't do that he would love to use. (Something about border images) but it seems like most of the CSS spec is implemented in some form or another.

    Off the top of my head the border-radius and background gradient support comes to mind. IE9 is superior to the previous versions as far as CSS support is concerned. However, when using a radius + a gradient, the gradient overrides the radius property which makes the div look boxy. There are a few dirty tricks to emulate it but it's still a hack. For a more hands on example which you can see how things vary subtly from one browser to another, take a look at the Layerstyles.org builder. I'm not affiliated with them, it's simply a neat interactive toy.

    I like the direction things are going and browser support for "new" technologies grows daily which enables designers to do more. CSS3 is fun stuff and it's great how it degrades gracefully but it's still not something you can depend on, yet.

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