Native HTML5: First IE10 Platform Preview Available for Download

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04/12/2011

IE10 Platform Preview 1, available for download today is the first step in delivering the next wave of progress in native HTML5 support. Web sites and HTML5 run best when they run natively, on a browser optimized for the operating system on your device.

We built IE9 from the ground up for HTML5 and for Windows to deliver the most native HTML5 experience and the best Web experience on Windows. IE10 continues on IE9’s path, directly using what Windows provides and avoiding abstractions, layers, and libraries that slow down your site and your experience:

The only native experience of the Web and HTML5 today is on Windows 7 with IE9. IE9’s approach to taking advantage of what the operating system offers – from the native graphics stack to jump lists in the shell – maximizes performance, usability, and reliability. We released a fast, clean, trusted, and interoperable IE9 globally for consumers and businesses four weeks ago with the goal of delivering the best experience of HTML5. The best HTML5 is native to the operating system, so Web sites have the fewest translation layers to pass through. The best HTML5 enables sites to use the same markup – the same HTML, CSS, and script – across browsers. The best HTML5 respects developers’ time and enables same markup by treating site-ready HTML5 differently from unstable technologies.

The IE10 preview continues what IE9’s first preview began a year ago:

“When we started looking deeply at HTML5, we saw that it will enable a new class of applications. These applications will stress the browser runtime and underlying hardware in ways today’s Web sites don’t. We quickly realized that doing HTML5 right – our intent from the start – is more about designing our browser’s subsystems around what these new applications will need than it is about a particular set of features. From the beginning, we approached IE9 with the goal of enabling professional-grade, modern HTML5 support on top of modern hardware through Windows.

“At the MIX conference today, we demonstrated how the standard Web patterns that developers already know and use broadly run better by taking advantage of PC hardware through IE9 on Windows. This blog post provides an overview of what we showed today, across performance, standards, hardware-accelerated HTML5 graphics, and the availability of the IE9 Platform Preview for developers.”

Native HTML5 and Real-world sites

Native HTML5 support in Windows with IE9 makes a huge difference in what sites can do. We demonstrated real-world sites from the development community that a year ago would have been possible only with a plug-in or application. These sites are live now and show that the technologies as implemented in IE9 are production-ready for consumers and businesses. Links are available at www.beautyoftheweb.com for you to try them out. These sites are proof of progress on the goal of same markup and standards-based Web technologies. They run in other browsers – just slower. As an industry, we’ve just started to see what’s possible when sites can take advantage of these capabilities. The experiences may be new today; they reflect what people will simply come to expect from sites in the future.

An Early Look at IE10

We’re about three weeks into development of IE10, and based on the progress we’ve made, we want to start engaging the development community now. At the MIX conference today, we showed the new browsing engine along with several new browser test drives that anyone on the Web can try out. You can run these at www.ietestdrive.com to see emerging standards like CSS3 Multi-column Layout (link), CSS3 Grid Layout (link) and CSS3 Flexible Box Layout (link), CSS3 Gradients (link), and ES5 Strict Mode in action. We also demonstrated additional standards support (like CSS3 Transitions (link) and CSS3 3D Transforms (link)) that will be available in subsequent platform previews of IE10, which we will update every 8-12 weeks.

Also available are new test drive samples for today’s production browsers. For example, Fishbowl is an update to the original FishIE tank that now uses more HTML5 technologies. Paintball is another great demonstration of what fully hardware accelerated HTML5 Canvas delivers.

Progress, not just activity, in improving the Web

Many of us share the goal of a more powerful, native, and robust Web. We want actual progress, not just iteration and activity, toward that goal.

The Web makes progress when

developers can take advantage of new technology
to build sites that feel and run more like native applications than Web pages
across production-quality browsers
using the same markup consistently.

This is how the Web delivers on the promise and value of the standards: when we as an industry deliver consumer-ready and business-ready HTML5.

The cadence of browser releases reflects how often technologies are updated, not how much the technologies actually advance from instability to robustness. Higher cadence just means more frequent releases of incomplete software (and larger version numbers). What matters is when consumers and businesses take delivery of robust, production-ready browsers that use the new technology.

Practical developers ask about the stability of emerging standards and when they can expect the same mark-up will work consistently across browsers. IE9 includes support for many emerging, not yet final standards (like font embedding, performance measurement, and privacy) that are stable enough for same markup to work consistently. Other emerging standards (like WebSockets and IndexedDB) need to stabilize before developers can expect that. We work with the community on these as part of HTML5 Labs, where iteration will not affect consumers and mainstream developers.

When browsers prematurely implement technology, the result is activity more than progress. Unstable technology results in developers wasting their time rewriting the same site. The gaps in same markup working consistently across browsers are obstacles to advancing the interoperable Web, not just annoyances.

Native implementations are just better for developers, consumers, and businesses. They keep Web sites from falling behind applications in performance and other important ways. While using cross-platform, non-native compatibility layers makes browser development easier, they don’t necessarily make a better browser. Browsers that use modern operating systems more directly deliver better experiences. Browsers that compromise (by spreading across too many OSes and OS versions) face challenges. For example, building a new browser for the ten-year old version of Windows that came with IE6 didn’t make sense to us because of the limitations of its graphics and security architectures. Others have dropped support on Windows XP for functionality that we think is fundamental to performance. As Windows 7 usage exceeds Windows XP’s in more and more countries (link), the sense in building for the future of the Web rather than the past is clear.

Ultimately, the point is advancing the interoperable Web and making the Web better. Developers want robust HTML5 implementations that they and their sites can rely on, in which the same markup works consistently. Our focus has been on enabling the same markup by delivering native HTML5 to Windows with full hardware acceleration and working closely with the standards bodies and the community.

Looking Forward

IE9 delivers native support for HTML5 on Windows. Now, your sites can deliver significantly better experiences in IE9 on Windows today.

IE10 continues several patterns from IE9. In addition to the Platform Preview available for developers to download at www.ietestdrive.com, we have posted new test drives and over 500 new tests we’ve submitted to the standards bodies. IE’s approach to emerging standards results in less churn and more progress for developers. IE10 builds on full hardware acceleration and continues our focus on site-ready Web-standards. This combination enables developers to deliver the best performance for their customers on Windows while using the same, Web-standard markup across browsers.

We look forward to continuing to engage the community and hearing your feedback.

—Dean Hachamovitch, Corporate Vice President, Internet Explorer

When this post was initially published, I forgot to include the onerror event handler for the HTML5 video element. This caused the video to not play in browsers that don't support MP4/H.264 video. That has been corrected. —Editor

Comments

Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Wow. Impressive list of improvements in the CSS range... Congrats! Daniel Glazman W3C CSS WG, Co-chairman
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Any thoughts on what the useragent string will be? MSIE 10.0 or will you follow the Opera route and make it something like MSIE 9.80 and have the "real" version be in the "Version" field ?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Great news. I am loving every moment of using IE9. IE10 will no doubt be even better. Just one request: please don't make these platform previews so unusable for day-to-day browsing by removing all UI elements. Why don't you just add the IE9 UI on top of the IE10 engine?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Excellent news, glad to see all this moving along so quickly. Any word on whether any HTML5 Forms input types & attributes will be included?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Finally, a chance for Text-Shadow?! desperately needed for modern designs!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Is there an anticipated release timeframe for IE 10 final?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Excuse me, are you telling me that you are not indending to support IE10 on Vista? Apart from that I was happy to hear of this new Preview. Question: Are the reports over at Connect in the process of being re-opened? Or do I have to file issues once again if they're marked "By Design", "Won't Fix" and so on?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
how about WebGL?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Definitely good to hear that IE10 is already in the works, but I'm still not upgrading as long as subpixel rendering is forced.
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
As long as Microsoft continue to pay attention to, and implement, modern web standard, without adding in their own ones like filter etc. then perhaps maybe I might be able to change my mind about them in regards to browser developers. Now all you have to do it make an update for 6, 7 and 8 to automatically upgrade to 9 so we can all get some sleep. ;)
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Re: Webkit Actually I was talking about Chrome, not webkit per se. I'm aware Safari doesn't ugglify 3D transforms.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
@Dave Gorman - It is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
The Video doesn’t use a freely available codec. Please be so kind and use WebM so that everyone of us can see it. It is the only codec supported by all browsers and really good on such low bitrates, so you could scrap the mp4 version alltogether. PS: No, Safari can’t display it, but there is no reason why not (other than Apple wanting to earn money with H.264 :))
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
+1 for wanting WebGL support.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Great! Another version of your browser to support! Regardless of what new browser you bring out, there will still be users using IE 6 and 7 simply because you refuse to force updates. And of course you tied 9 into Vista+.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
WebGL & text-shadow is in work afaik... There'll be Windows 8 as the most modern OS. Vista was a fail -.- Something has to be done to make people upgrading their systems.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Ok I'm now interested, though only, ONLY, in the case that when IE 10 is released IE 9 users will automatically be upgraded. Is this the case? Please, if you actually love Developers like you guys keep saying you do, make sure that this is the case.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Please stop IE development. We already have enough work with all mistakes in IE6 - 7 - 8 - (9?)...
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Thank you. Really.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
The hardware acceleration and multi column layouts are remarkable. The sad part is people still use IE 6 and 7.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
its great to see Microsoft continuing to interact with developers regarding @IE, platform previews are great and regular update will keep the new features flowing :)
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
It is nice to hear that Internet Explorer is evolving fast, but I am still using Google Chrome, I heard so many times Microsoft saying that they made things better, and every time we tried to use that better technology things turned to the worse. Examples: VB 4 was much slower than VB6 :-) VS.NET should have been much better than VB6 for business applications, but it turned to be much slower. VS 2005 is slower than VS 2003 VS 2008 is slower and faster sometimes than VS 2005 VS 2010 is two steps backwards. Vista is slower than XP Windows 7 is slower than XP especially in a virtual machine. And every release of IE is slower than the one before. Not to mention WPF, WPF 4 is slow, WPF 3 is way slower than Windows Forms, Windows Forms are slower than VB, VB was slower than the plain C++ code, and so on. I have read so much from Microsoft the past 15 years, and have been excited so many times, and disappointed in every single time :-) There has not been a single new technology that was really better than the one before, it is very hard to believe that IE is this time :-)
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
@JM - thanks, re: useragent. Is that your belief or is it confirmed?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Playing catch-up eh! I really hope IE10 will be released before fall 2011.
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I guess that you might have already noticed it ;-) , but your video above doesn't display in Firefox4. Is it that hard to provide a compatible version so everybody can see what you are talking about?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
@Dave Gorman - I had installed IE10PP1 and tried it before I replied to your post.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Hurray! Thanks, I love you guys. <3 Just one thing: Please, please, please add text-shadows.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Excellent! Gradient support, for one, was sorely needed. Now ... border-image?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
April fools?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Great. Now, that full hardware acceleration is working. next awesome step would be WebGL!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Please stop developing shiny toys to show off at conferences and do something useful for developers that actually work on the normal business applications - GIVE US THE NEW INPUT TYPES. Once again they are cool because

Almost every application has input of e-mails, required validation, regex validation, input of dates, input of phone numbers (although this is not very useful as input type for desktop browsers), etc. Business applications have hundreds of these inputs.
They fail gracefully in older browsers. They just revert to a textbox and the experience for the user with the older browser degrades but the app is still usable without any additional work from the developer. I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR 3D TRANSITIONS, ABOUT YOUR HARDWARE ACCELERATED SVG, ABOUT THE VIDEO SUPPORT. I don't know a single web developer who will use this in his day job. While there are people who work on such projects most people work on boring business apps. Please make our live easier. GIVE US THE NEW INPUT TYPES! P.S. Fix the font rendering.

Anonymous
April 12, 2011
How about the HTML5 File API?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
@JM Thanks !! I haven't gotten around to installing it yet. Need to choose a VM to put it on.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
For those who are using a web browser other than Internet Explorer 9, please bear in mind that it’s not Microsoft’s fault that the video included in this blog post may not be able to be played or downloaded in your web browser. It’s because your web browser does not natively support H.264 HTML 5 video. You have several options in hand. • Install a relevant plug-in in your web browser. • Use Internet Explorer 9 Don’t blame Microsoft for supporting H.264 HTML 5 video. The right of using H.264 video is already included with your Windows 7 license. It’s certainly strange why the other web browser makers wouldn’t want to support H.264 HTML 5 video natively in Windows, even though Windows 7 users already paid the cost with their payment of Windows 7 license fees.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Are you trying to compete with Mozilla in the amount of trolling per word? They've already won, it's useless.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I hope you forget no GUI improvements and changes.
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
-1 for supporting WebGL, it's just a native OpenGL ES shim, it doesn't have anything to do with the web. Trying to make it function on JS is a joke. Push the WebGL to develop a proper immediate-mode rendering 3D API that makes sense on the web and is not platform (OpenGL) specific. Thanks.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Congrats, Microsoft, you are staying true to you word of supporting new-generation HTML5 webapps. What I need for my webapp to support IE (besides Chrome):

HTML5 Forms -- range, number, placeholder, meter -- and soon: date
Web Notifications Also, build a IE Web Store (similar to the Chrome Web Store) to help us web developers sell our apps!

Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Wow, I'm flabbergasted. Already working on the next one? Congrats! Here are some feature requests that would be most meaningful to me in my work (if you're interested), in order of meaningfulnes:

Server-sent events
Web-initiated desktop notifications
Web workers
File API
Full support for Data URLs
Session history management
Web Sockets
WPF-ize the developer tools and make it more sophisticated (I really like how WebKit is progressing on this front - there's a place to look for inspiration) Thanks for not stopping the innovation at IE9!! Roy

Anonymous
April 12, 2011
@the_dees: Great to see you here! In response to your question regarding Connect, we are not re-opening bugs from IE9, but users can reactivate them. One difference users should note between the transition from IE9 to IE10 and previous transitions is that we continued to accept feedback between cycles and did not resolve users logged against the RTM release as "Postponed". As a result, all of the resolutions for RTM bugs are as "valid" as those logged before RTM, in that we individually triaged every resolved bug and made an engineering decision on whether to fix the bug. If a bug still exists in IE10, or if you disagree with the resolution from IE9, you should feel free to reactivate your bug with your reasoning. The engineering team will revisit the decision in light of the new information and let you know their decision. Thanks for all your great feedback!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Excuse me Microsoft but Internet Explorer 10 will not run on Windows Vista?? Should I sue you for this practice? Once upon a time, IE6 ran on Windows NT 4.0!! And now we're slowly beginning to see the real evil side of Microsoft. Shame on you, shame on this company. What is your excuse this time, Vista is also so obsolete now that IE10 PP won't install? Whatever happened to the good liberal Microsoft?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Please add native suport for the WebM video codec. Thanks!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
tuxplorer, you're an idiot. Kindly go amputate your hands and never use the internet again. Thanks.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Don't put out new versions too quickly. If you do that, someone might give a *** about your browser and you'll ruin everything (again re: IE6) Well, as long as you don't backport to XP we're safe. Keep your browser tied to superfluous, useless new versions of your dying OS
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Can we hope for SVG filters?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
How about getting some border-image in there? Seriously. Do it. Do it now.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
@Fleet Command Don't be a troll please.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I've said it again and again, the core problem with IE is not its features, performance, security, or bugs, it's the process in which updates are performed. ALL browsers should FORCE updates (like Chrome), promising compliance to the latest and greatest, including the ever-critical security updates. The way it is now, you've got the problem of the internet as a whole never running better than its oldest technology (IE6). There are of course many exceptions, but that's the problem, is there should not be need for these exceptions. It is unnecessary. It doesn't matter how much better IE7 is over IE6, or IE8 over IE7, or IE9 over IE8, etc, because you'll always be plagued with the internet being held back by the oldest adopted technology. If you want Internet Explorer 10 to impress and lead the future, FORCE UPDATES. As it is it'll still be another 8-10 yrs before we get rid of all the old stuff, assuming IE10 does not follow this bad practice yet again.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Good job Microsoft! I'm a front-end developer and I love what you are currently doing!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
This is great news, it's good to see that the IE team aren't going to go completely dark again leaving everyone wondering what's happening. Looking forward to the many Platform Previews that carry us through till the launch of IE10.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Please oh please, give it IE9 GUI at least...
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
You should have shown Chrome with hardware acceleration enabled from the about:flags.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Progress is great. However, adding CSS features and the like are not what most people would consider major release worthy. The market is segmented enough between IE6-9. With the lack of support for XP and the relatively new release of IE9, we will no doubt continue to see a 3 version segmentation when all we really need is 2 segments (IE8 and IE9). Please blog about your plan to continually update IE9 backporting features and continuing to provide bug fixes (not just security fixes). As for the guy complaining that all IE's updates happen though Windows Update AND that you have to opt-in, you can blame the laywers for that. Thanks!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Ah, yes, and SVG Filters. Thanks Esveegee for reminding me... Basically I'm using them (in my webapp) to apply gradients to the SVG icons.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Progress is great. I noticed that he said that chrome uses the "-webkit" prefixes for their gradients - this is not strictly true. When both the -webkit and non-webkit prefixes are there, chrome opts to use the standardized version. Too bad gradients have been implemented in most modern browsers for years now.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Isn't firefox 4 the old version of firefox? If we're playing this game, IE7 is what we should compare the current chrome developer version to.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Could you add padding/margin highlighting and cookies tab in developer toolbar like in firebug. Also it will be nice to have ability to change size of element with up/down arrows.
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April 12, 2011
6.) You can't make a blog post here on the IE Blog telling us that IE9 is the best HTML5 renderer etc. and then post a NON-FREELY available CODEC. Get rid of that h.264 garbage please and post a WebM format (or other freely available, non-DRM encrusted codec/format) You will not make any developers happy if you can't even post videos in an appropriate format on this blog. You know how much this behavior on this blog disgusts the developers - It boggles my mind that you continue to do so thinking that pi$$ing us off will somehow make developers want to endorse and recommend IE as a browser... and a development platform. THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!! THE WEB IS OPEN!! THERE IS NO PART OF H.264 THAT IS OPEN!!!! EPIC FAIL!!!!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
@Vladimir: Something is wrong on your end then, because the speed reading demo is a constant 60fps here with both IE9 and IE10pp1.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Nice to see you are working on the next IE release. Just one question, how often do you intend to update (add featrues, W3C standards bugs/security fixes etc. ) in Internet Explorer 9?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
>-1 for supporting WebGL, it's just a native OpenGL ES shim [...] It's a wrapper for OpenGL ES 2.0. >Push the WebGL to develop a proper immediate-mode rendering 3D API that makes sense on the web and is not platform (OpenGL) specific. Immediate mode rendering would be too slow, because "crossing the bridge" is pretty expensive in this case. A low level API which forces you to batch up your drawing calls is the best option. If you want a scene graph API, there are libraries for that. (Which again is only possible, because WebGL is kinda low level.) OpenGL works everywhere. Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Smartphones (and all other SoC thingies), handhelds, consoles, and whatever. It even works on Windows if you don't have usable OpenGL drivers installed; you can use ANGLE to translate it to DirectX 9 API calls. Chrome on Windows uses this option for example. ANGLE is licensed under the new BSD license and Microsoft (and everyone else) is free to use it. Inventing some entirely new low level API for this wouldn't serve any purpose whatsoever. WebGL is the most sensible approach.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Funny seeing people all worked up over IE10 which might actually come close to what all other browsers support today and yesterday. (Waiting for the first person to post after me to pick out an item not in the other browsers today but will be long before IE10 comes out and will never be in IE9.)
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
For people complaining about video support, H264 works in other browsers if you have the extension installed just as WebM works in IE9 if you have the codec installed.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Please, Microsoft, don't try to confuse people by hijacking the word "native". An HTML 5 application does not run on a magical HTML 5 CPU, even in IE9 and IE10. Being single platform may allow you to develop IE faster but it is not an advantage for the user.
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Will you be the last to support WebGL ?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Congratulations on the IE team for the continued development. (Not that I expected otherwise...) Keep up the (good) work!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
@Janet, Why is it that people on the internet want everything for nothing? The only place that MOST codecs get you is when you are producing and/or charging for the viewing of a video/audio item using a codec. The same is the case for H.264. Here's the solution though. Demand browsers to use system installed codecs for rendering. This is how codecs have always worked in the past (windows media player, winamp, and [insert player here] all will play any video or audio file if the codec is on the system (not a plugin in the browser to support codec X that is already on the system, but support installed codecs directly). The HTML body left the codec out of the video element spec for a reason. Defining that codec X is "best for HTML" is stupid because next year codec Y will come out and dominate the market. So, stop arguing for one codec fits all, argue for system support (why can't divx work if the user has it installed?) and we can all move on using whatever codec WE (the developers and producers of content) feel delivers the best experience.
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
You should be courteous enough to put both H.264 and WebM video in this blog. Until the video mess is sorted out, we're still living in a world where every native-OS browser uses H.264, but every alternative browser uses (or will soon use) WebM exclusively.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I'll volunteer to be first, then. As you could see from Dean's keynote, no browser other than IE9 (at it's first preview) handled rounded, dotted corners correctly. Today, they still fail to rise to that challenge. What makes you think "the competition" will have included all the features (correctly!) that this first IE 10 preview has? All the IE bashers (and I know there are some good reasons for that!) seem to be getting desperate. It becomes painfully obvious that the "tests" or "testsites" give a very distorted view of what other browers support and whether these features are actually ready to be implemented in real world scenarios.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
The IE10 preview is awesome thanks! I really hope you guys further the .net / c# plugin support for #IE10 as it would be great for proper support!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Any chance of history.pushState() getting into IE10?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I wonder whether IE will ever be able to display this stunning Hubble Telescope animation: i826.photobucket.com/.../APNG-StarV838.png or Firefox will always be several steps ahead on such things.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Alas, poor Vista users, you're treated as 3rd class citizens now, IE10 will not install on Vista. Why not use a far superior browser like Firefox or Chrome which doesn't need to to splurge $200 license for Windows 7 or Windows 8 just to run it.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Microsoft is hopeless,IE isn't modern browser basically.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I just say IE is stupid !!!!!
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Congratulations on your absolutely fantastic work on IE10 so far. I was wondering if we'd get a platform preview at Mix, but definitely wasn't expecting it to include so much stuff! And with CSS transitions definitely coming as well? Colour me impressed.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
@Dean Hachamovitch [MSFT] > The only native experience of the Web and HTML5 today is on Windows 7 with IE9. Such very marketing-ish claim is pure exaggeration and without serious foundation. > We look forward to continuing to engage the community and hearing your feedback. How about upgrading connect IE beta feedback so that people do not have to repeatedly, over and over, again and again, from IE release to other IE release re-file, re-edit and re-submit bug reports which were already confirmed to begin with? This is a thing testers have been complaining about after IE7 beta development, after IE8 beta development and after IE9 beta development. How about making bug reports at IE beta feedback accessible, viewable without required login in, without required registration? No other online bug tracking system for web browsers do that (except at Opera). Such login in requirement did not exist during IE8 beta development. Why make things more difficult, restrictive, constraining? User agent string: It's now Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0) but "Mozilla/5.0" refers to nothing useful, relevant or important and "compatible" is useless, pointless, irrelevant. Why not keep user agent string to a minimum and remove those strings? > building a new browser for the ten-year old version of Windows that came with IE6 didn’t make sense to us because of the limitations of its graphics and security architectures. Fair enough then. Now what is Microsoft doing to make IE6 users upgrade their browsers? IE6 is on the extended support until april 2014. What is Microsoft doing to make IE7 users upgrade their browsers? IE7 is going to be supported until 2017! Excluding Windows versions from certain newer IE versions (IE9 for XP and now IE10 for Vista) - even if fully justified - does not by itself encourage or contribute to help people upgrade their IE browser versions. Is IE10 going to continue to support document.all in web standards compliant rendering mode? Running tests at ietestdrive: You and your colleagues/software developers often invite people to run those tests and report problems or issues. But, you see, there is no incentive, no compensation none whatsoever of any kind for spending time editing, reporting issues with ietestdrive tests. Same thing with ugly mistakes, errors of various kinds in MSDN articles and webpages and elsewhere at microsoft.com. IE10 PP1 and CSS 2.1 test suite RC6: what are the pass/fail/total numbers for IE10 PP1? regards, Gérard Talbot
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Create ie.uservoice.com like ADO.NET team did.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
>>>The only native experience of the Web and HTML5 today is on Windows 7 with IE9 Microsoft lies. FF4 or Chrome gives today much more HTML5 than IE9.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
IE10 is not supported for Vista? Looks like IE9 is the new IE6. What a joke, requiring people to buy the latest Windoze/Winblows version to run a browser.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Please update IE10 to support Windows Vista! I can't believe you people dropped Vista which still has 1 year of Mainstream support!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
YOU CAN GET ALL THE SAME FEATURES IN CHROME OR FIREFOX OR OPERA IE IS JUST PLAYING CATCH-UP AND IT'S ONLY AVAILABLE ON A VERSION OF WINDOWS NOBODY CARES ABOUT MICROSOFT HATES THE OPEN WEB
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
"no browser other than IE9 (at it's first preview) handled rounded, dotted corners correctly" LOL! What an awfully specific feature. I guess you had to dig that deep to find one How about the way IE8 purposely omitted Canvas support entirely. While other browsers had beautiful HARDWARE-ACCELERATED canvas already, IE8 had nothing at all. Now IE9 rolls along and they're still trying to spin it as somehow the defining browser for HTML5 even while they move onto IE10 Man, I can't believe you people sometimes. You really buy this?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I find it curious that so many anti-IE/MS zealots follow the IE blog
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Nobody follows it, Microsoft shoves it in our face. They invade every corner of the Internet trying to sell their spin. Remember when they had that IAMA on Reddit which was really just a press release?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
They certainly spread it around but I don't think they force anyone to read it and they certainly don't force people to comment; I'm pretty sure people just come here to rant, lol (regardless of whether they have legitimate points to make)
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
You're right, maybe they don't "force" the blog on you..... ......like they do with their operating system BA-ZING
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Wow...you guys musta coded the whole thing in machine language. I mean, if abstractions are that horrible, then even assembly code is suboptimal. :) The upside is you should have saved a bundle on keyboards by switching to keyboards with only 2 keys. :) Seriously, I get the more abstractions the slower thing. Faster is better. Except that is not the goal. The goal is fastest performance AND fast delivery of features. I'll be very interested, given the statements made here, if Microsoft will be able to match or best Google's speed in terms of both performance and stable feature delivery over an extended period(5 years or so).
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Not sure why I'm still bothering to reply but I don't see how they "force" windows on you either...
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Great! Please support webworkers
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Ohh IE10!! This is bad news... I lost hope that someday ie will be a good browser.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Hola, IE 10...It is nice to see graphics responding very good, interactive, and great resolution. I can't wait for 3D web...mmm good idea. I hope IE will be the first one, since there's software to play 3D tool for the browser. I have a question, will IE 10 take up my cpu performance? Hopefully not, but I will try out anyways. Congrats.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
i noticed that text is more clear in this IE10 PP1 than in IE9, look at this page in IE9 and then in IE10 PP1, is that right?? what changed??
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
What about IE10 on XP? :-)
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
im suprised you sure its not april 1st
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I hope i can replace my chrome with ie10, the HTML5 support in IE9 is not that great compared to the latest chrome version.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
As long as new IE versions get tied to newer Windows versions and as long as an upgrade to the latest IE version is impossible as a result from an "outdated" (though still officially supported!!) Windows version, all your bells and whistles are plain meaningless and won't impress real-world developers. As has been mentioned here a couple of times before the ever increasing list of IE versions is an also ever increasing pain in the neck due to the different versions' quirks which need to be dealt with. If you really want your browser to conquer the web, make it available for WindowsXP since this is still widely used (and is still officially supported!!). IE will get a humongous boost in webdeveloper acceptance as soon as people can freely upgrade to the latest version on their XP machines because then almost everybody has the possibility of using the latest, feature-richest and security-patched IE ever made so far - and we'd FINALLY be all rid of 10-year-old quirky browser crutches. But as it is at the moment I couldn't care less about any version later than IE8 since they don't install on many machines - and I know I'm not alone in this.
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
8-12 weeks - long time. Chrome updates more quickly.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Who writes this drivel? Do you people at Microsoft actually consider yourself still relevant to the web? Aside from your marketing being shoved down the throats of those who don't know any better, you went away years ago. Try installing the browsers of your competitors and marvel at how it's supposed to be done. Please, follow Netscape's example and fade into obscurity.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Loving all the IE haters :) ... throwing tantrums because they so passionately hoped for IE failure but now feel threatened by all the progress
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Lol another version of IE. I have a novel idea...How about only one version of IE that actually renders CSS3 correctly and works on WindowsXP and up. Guaranteed you'll be a lot more liked by every developer in the world.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
You guys are awesome at trolling. I just love how you're so busy ruining the web in the future that you can't even take the time to fix the current issues with your browsers.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I can understand the reason why XP is not supported, it's ten years old, but are you seriously going to release IE10 as Win7 only? That's a monumentally bad decision. Yes, Vista has a bad image, but still it's supported and falls within the product life cycle. Not supporting Vista will send a BAD signal. I am not a Microsoft hater, far from it, and that's why I can see why this move is just dumb. Let's not forget, Vista together with the Plattform Update is pretty much equal with Win7 API wise.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Pay $200 to use a browser! Great scam there, MS.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Looking forward to the NATIVE XP version of IE 10 :-P
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Wanna bet IE11 will not install on Windows 7? IE10 will be the new IE6 on Windows 7.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Gradients, multi-column - reminds me of Opera 11.10, which was released today ;) Its great that (in one from now) developers will be able to use all those cool new features seamlessly across the 5 major browsers. Transitions are great, too, looking forward to see them in IE. Hopefully, hardware accelerated. @Alan Gresley, no, sorry, animations have no place in CSS, they should belong to javascript. @Fabricio Campos Zuardi, yes, WebM can be a nice addition to both IE10 and this page ;) Too bad the preview is not behaving well, in particular it does not seem to like being sandboxed. .. "iepreview.exe : The ordinal 462 could not be located in the dynamic link library urlmon.dll" I hope the IE team can (and will) make more portable installer for the next previews.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Seriously, I don't get the people who whine about CSS3 support in the comments. Have you read the darn blog post? It's mentioned that CSS3 support will be greatly enhanced. The Vista issue is the real problem.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Asuming that IE10 will have the same roadmap like IE9, we can expect final IE10 excactly one year from now :)
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
It's so native! Ok, I'm native at my home, but that doesn't give me great advantages when I move into the real world. But maybe this is even more native than myself.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Let me just add my vote for text-shadow support.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
...will it be standard HTML 5 ...or Microsofts non-compliant version of it???
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I vote for no more versions. Just upgrade it behind the scenes like Chrome does, latest and greatest always. HTML is a living spec, let's make living browsers!
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Anybody on the IE team (or CSS3 team), please check out my solution/idea for terse but flexible gradients, CGDL, www.GradientServer.com I built the image (currently with PHP/GD2) generator, a basic (browser-based) editor, and of course the spec itself. Still in progress, but it would be a lot more useful than the current css gradient spec.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Great – but what about the people with IE 9? Until IE implements an auto-update system, you'll be influencing horrible fragmentation of the web (evident in people using IE 6-9)
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I'm pleased to see the improved HTML5 and CSS3 standards support in IE10. It is also nice to see you are in a faster release cycle as well. I currently work as a web developer and testing for IE versions is a major issue. Let's say there is a rendering bug in IE9, that bug will exist for at least a year, in most cases years (since you are not supporting Vista on IE10 users of that OS will be stuck in IE9). On a daily basis I have to test for IE6(I'm not joking), IE7, IE8, IE9. That requires multiple Virtual Machines to test properly. Using compatibility meta tags means losing the benefits of IE9 and IE10. The reason for this fragmentation is the way you update the browser, it has to have a separate update mechanism from the Window Update. It needs incremental updates like the other browsers. How are we supposed to use these new features when 50% of the users are stuck with an old version of your browser? IE users is getting more fragmented every day, and this is slowing down the evolution of web standards.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Some moderation required please. Plain trolling has little use here.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Glad to see the update so quickly! Echoing some of the other comments here, please include support for text-shadow! It's time to move away from "filters".
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
"Please update IE10 to support Windows Vista! I can't believe you people dropped Vista which still has 1 year of Mainstream support!" -I agree! ='( was so happy when I read the news... + I looked at the video and downloaded the program... But what do I see: Vista is not supported! Why, why, why! At least I'm the biggest fan of Internet Explorer. :( I'm... totally... shocked... now... I hope that this is just a bad dream... I pray, give Internet Explorer 10, for all of us Vista people! Windows Vista and 7 do not differ so much from each other, so I do not understand this? :(
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
IE10 is getting indeed the best browser of all. The jealous comments of the fanboi trolls here are perfect proof and indication for that.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Please include :

Spellchecker
Download Manager autoadjust ,
Ability to integrate multiple IE windows into tabs an viceversa.
A add-on platform
Ability to see 2 webpages from 2 tabs splitted in the screen.
Better memory consumption.
Faster javaScript. Thank you!

Anonymous
April 12, 2011
text-shadow?? PLEASEEE !!! :)
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
i forgot Please add auto-update system, indepent from windows update!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Please tell the no Vista is only for this first platform preview. If not the team is artifically killing OS support. Not cool. MS supports everything for a minium of 10 years but in most cases more. Please tell us this is temperary and that the next preview will support Vista.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
IE in a nutshell: i56.tinypic.com/311s410.jpg The damage has been done. The legacy of IE won't be fixed with a new version number.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I'll just say one thing: WebGL
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
@GT: Windows 7 is demonstrably faster than XP. +1 on all the requests for the new input types.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Getting ahead of Mozilla (Again LOL)! They just opened a bug to try and copy what you guys are doing bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi ! They even have a new site to check: http://arewenativeyet.com/. YEAH! IE 10 IS GOING TO RULE WITH NAÏVE HTML5
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
So yea it's nice that IE finally doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel so bad. Now that you aren't a laughing stock you should start working on stuff the other guys are doing so you can stay relevant. Start with cross-platform, that's a must for anyone who uses a computer at home and at work these days.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
So, ah, @OldUSER, did you read the links you just posted? If you're being serious then you're already making fun of yourself better than I ever could hope to.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
IE Team In this version make it so Internet Explorer will support non ActiveX add-ons cause ActiveX is easy to get hacked. IE10 should support plugins like firefox, opera, chrome does cause would anybody want to use a webbrowser with an old out of date thing like ActiveX? Making IE support something else that isn't ActiveX might make IE 2x as faster than Chrome and Firefox and opera and safari put all together. :)
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Microsoft, Excellent work on IE9. I am very excited to hear that IE10 is already in works. Way to keep ahead and lead the competition. For the most part, I have transitioned from FF back to IE9. However, there are two features that I am constantly missing:

Inline spell checking. I have tried the addons and do not particularly care for them.
The ability to move to previous and next tabs with Ctrl+PageDown and Ctrl+PageUp. Hopefully these can make it into IE10.

Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Official statement needed please Microsoft. What is Microsoft's justification for dropping IE10 WIndows Vista support?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
@Dave Gorman Recollecting Opera 10 release, I was thinking the exact same thing: What's the userAgent gonna be for IE10? I hope it's really what JM says.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Ah, I hope that doesn't sound like the userAgent string should be a certain thing. My standpoint is that IE10 shouldn't have to change the number "10" to e.g "9.8" just to handle badly coded sites.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
While it's an impressive demo, it highlights more the Browser's war and fragmentation challenges rather than showing off HTML5
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
very impressive! Thanks MSDN!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
its rather hard to test this demo directly as this preview of the fish bowl (starts at about 2:03:00 in) is running on their Arm Tegra platform according to blogs.nvidia.com/.../microsoft-sneak-peak-tegra-powering-ie10-on-next-gen-windows and they dont allow you to download that ARM version with OS sample obviously.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Good to see the rapid dev cycle of IE. BTW any plan for IE web store (Just like Chrome!)??
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
And what about Windows Vista? Are you gonna say it's already toooooooooo old?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
wasn't there same problem with IE9pp/beta and some versions of the OS? May be PP is not polished enough to run on vista or they have simply not tested PP on VIsta yet.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Garbage.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I think IE10 will be integrated on windows 8 ... Nice work.. go go go...;)
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
IE10 preview roundup reviewed www.softwarecrew.com/.../microsoft-releases-internet-explorer-10-platform-preview-1
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Natively I believe the native nature of nativity is very natural.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Chrome Team, you have work to do!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I feel you are running too fast... ! what about IE9 !! and soon IE 10 ?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Well, IE9 is a failure... You say that is support much CSS3 but where is a thing like text-shadow?
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
It's great to see the progress on IE 10. I agree with those who've said the addition of the HTML5 input types would be an excellent feature to see in the next preview.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
"The only native experience of the Web and HTML5 today is on Windows 7 with IE9." Is this a joke? DK
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
"Native HTML5" snicker. Also: WebGL. Cheers.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
HTML5 Web Workers are working fine in other browser. Do you plan to provide it also?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
"Native HTML5" is too funny :)
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
It's great to see IE10 capabilities being revealed so early into the development cycle. Why, though, does HTML/CSS/JScript deserve so much attention when Microsoft already has far superior platforms of its own in Silverlight (and WPF)? CSS Gradients? Fantastic - XAML has had gradients from the start (and hardware accelerated, no less). It feels like Microsoft is moving backwards in moving towards web applications. You are absolutely correct that users prefer native applications, and IE10 seems unlikely to change that.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
As is said, Internet Explorer is nothing more than the best browser for downloading a better browser. As a programmer, having a new IE to deal with is a scarry perspective.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Another IE ? Love IE 9 as compared to its predessors, but many websites are still struggling to move on with the changing technologies. Such a Shame ! Will try IE10 today :)
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
I wonder if the IE team and Windows team know... once upon a time, there's a Microsoft product called Windows 2000. And a browser can almost do everything IE9/10 could do YEARS ago called Opera - which - interestingly - can be installed, and used on Windows 2000... Now you're saying IE10 cannot be installed on Vista... I'm just sayin' Releasing new version cannot get the share you lost to Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Making old Windows XP/ Vista machines able to use your "relatively" stable, "relatively" fast, "relatively" HTML5/CSS3 compatible IE is way more important. Do you guys know there's over 90% lead-like-solid share of XP plus IE6 in China? Give us a port of IE (you may call it whatever cool name you want) for good old win xp / vista / 7 , no WGA check, everyone happy.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
"Native HTML5" Microsoft sure knows how to make a joke... and they show it with every word they say.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Keep up the good work .I don't get why people are asking for XP support .seriously XP is ancient get over it.
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April 12, 2011
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
"Native HTML5" - wow, so you invented a CSS3 and HTML5 co-processor that installs and melds itself on your architecture when downloading IE? =) Awesome! =P First think of not letting Windows freeze when starting two audio streams in parallel. Then implement html5 before posting such articles on the net. First think, then post. Not the other way round.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Can you guys slow down on browser release and focus on something like Windows Mobile or Security issues or something like that?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Please, please, please get the File API and and the new inputs rolled into this release !!!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Great to see a preview release so soon - but as well as Windows 7, why not Server 2008 R2? Isn't that the server equivalent of Windows 7?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
+1 for webGL it will be in every browser except yours:( WebGL needs to happen.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
My site uses HTML5. And I feel it feels more native when running it in FF4 or Crhome 11 than IE9 or IE10. Because they both have better HTML5 support. Just feels more native to me.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
@AS: Stop trolling, please. Why the IE team would slow down new IE releases and change their focus to (deprecated) Windows Mobile? It's another team.
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Let's add a constructive comment for this. IE should have a button for enabling experimental (non-standardized stuff including HTML and web features) that's visible next to the compatibility button. (The broken page icon.)
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Please define "native HTML5"? In what way are other browser not "native"? Are you implying they use emulators and do not talk directly to the OS and GPU drivers?
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Did I just read Na<del>t</del>ive HTML5? Seriously, first implement things like the HTML5 form inputs and the file API. That really improves the life of Web App devs and it's users. I know it's not flashy, it's about UX.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Excellent!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Hopefully this version features spell check! I love how neat IE9 is, powerful in advanced features, I just can imagine IE10!
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
IE has been the worst piece of software to work around as a web designer. It is way behind in comparison to the other browsers out there. I don't have much hope for it after seeing the past 5 versions of IE. My only hope is that microsoft does something great for all their users and shuts down IE permanently. Forcing windows users to use Mozilla would be a good alternative and would make the Internet a better place. Please don't release another version of IE.
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April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
http://www.html5test.com/ IE 9 AND 10 Both get 130. Chrome dev build is the highest with 291 points. IMHO - First browser to hit 300 wins :)
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
E Team In this version make it so Internet Explorer will support non ActiveX add-ons cause ActiveX is easy to get hacked. IE10 should support plugins like firefox, opera, chrome does cause would anybody want to use a webbrowser with an old out of date thing like ActiveX? Making IE support something else that isn't ActiveX might make IE 2x as faster than Chrome and Firefox and opera and safari put all together. :)
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
ActiveX has been used for Internet Explorer add-ons since the very beginning of Internet Explorer. It is time to say Goodbye To ActiveX Microsoft Listen to me I'm one of your fans. i have like 10 computers with windows 7. I love microsoft and the IE team. take ActiveX out
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Make IE10 so Internet Explorer will never crash on http://crashie.com/ cause IE8 crashes and i'm sure IE9 does too.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
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Anonymous
April 12, 2011
Make Internet Explorer 10 faster than IE9.
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
You might be able to do this if you remove ActiveX from the browser :P
Anonymous
April 12, 2011
What's up with all the people acting like children here, screaming with caps, ascii and mindless repetitions. Doing this doesn't get your point across better, it just makes you look like an immature idiot.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
We definitely need moderation in here. Maybe IP reporting too so we can see how many "people" are using the same IP address... Anyway, I just love it when an MS browser can't open Hotmail :-) Apparently I need to upgrade IE10 to login to Live Mail.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Microsoft Whenever I'm on bing.com or on my windows live email if i open the F12 Dev tools I see the browser is in IE7 mode. Fix This please :p
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
I hope, every morning, the Microsoft get on FIRE.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Microsoft: Disappointing peoples since 1985
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
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Anonymous
April 13, 2011
great.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
@Dave Gorman, the user-agent string on my computer is: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; BRI/2) but with all versions of IE, you can change it in the registory if you wish to.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
@help www.favbrowser.com/crahsie-com-is-a-scam please read here : ) Stupid people fools stupid internet users like you
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Please support APNG (animated PNG). MNG never took off, but if IE got behind APNG (supported by FF) then maybe it would take off.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
IE team might consider adding Test262 by Ecma International to IE testdrive list of benchmarks http://test262.ecmascript.org/
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
IE9 has bugs unfixed. Hopefully this will be taken on and IE10 will be more rounded and have those bugs fixed (I'm not holding my breath though). I've had to revert to IE8 rather than attempt workarounds to view sites like youtube properly. (also BBC iPlayer - page loads in IE9, but no play controls - not an issue with IE8 - ever).
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
@Gérard Talbot You want an incentive? How about Bing points? ;-)
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
It looks like I am not the only one who has a problem with the Microsoft products; I was the biggest Microsoft fan up until 1992 - 2005, and then came VS.NET 2005 and was a total disappointment. Today I spent so much time waiting for VS.NET 2010 to complete whatever is doing, and have enough time to complain to the IE team :-) I guess the developers are angry for many reasons, some of them:

Not allowed to install Google Chrome at work and have to use IE :-)
Google Chrome is pretty good, but cannot print correctly yet, so IE is still used for Business Applications (some of them)
IE always wrote nice things about every release, and then always disappointed us, so people are expected to be disappointed even before trying IE 10 :-) Good Luck

Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Make an appbar in Internet Explorer 10 for like little toolbar icons like Mcafee SiteAdvisor, Web of trust, Avast WebRep. Cause The Toolbars those plugins/add-ons make in IE is annoying. Firefox, and opera, and chrome do no such thing with those. those browsers make icons on like an app bar.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Well that was fast, but the lack of vista support means I can't check it out =/ Well hopefully IE10 will have HTML5 Forms, thats the main thing I felt was missing from IE9.
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April 13, 2011
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April 13, 2011
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April 13, 2011
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Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Microsoft, please dump these W3C "standards", open source is a cancer and it and it's followers must be eradicated like the plague they are. Kindly push the web forward with innovation and dump this OSS bueracracy.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Omg, the comments are pathetic :DDD
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
I'm a web developer, so I develop on server operating systems. Since installation is blocked for my Server 2008 R2 installation, this seems more like an attempt at PR than a legitimate technical preview...
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
How about NOT making ANY IE EVER? That "browser" is simply the crapiest piece of software known to human kind.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
I don't think general-purpose hardware actually supports Native HTML5. Is Microsoft developing HTML5 coprocessors for IE10
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
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Anonymous
April 13, 2011
That "browser" is simply the crapiest piece of software known to human kind.

SPOT ON!

Anonymous
April 13, 2011
May I just point everybody's attention to: people.mozilla.com/.../ie9_vs_fx4.html BOOM!
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
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Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Hello native HTML5 experience. Do you support HTML5 forms meanwhile?
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
I can't care much about IE10 support in Vista. First, I will only use Chrome: it is superior in every aspect, not the least usability and UI. Also IE is always playing catch-up with Chrome, Safari and Opera. Second, but the time IE10 is an RC, most of my browsing will be done on iOS and Android. MS lost the final battle in the Browser war. 'nough said already.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Just like to re-iterate previous comments I have made to the effect of asking for you to please not implement CSS text-shadow and work on things which actually matter, and won't degrade the user experience like text-shadow will, in place of it.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
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Anonymous
April 13, 2011
IE10 support for native HTML5 omits aboriginals, Inuits and First Nations. Tribal Councils outraged.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
@Human Plague - that's not fair, you know full well that; The only aboriginal experience of the Web and HTML5 today is on Windows 7 with IE9. The only Inuit experience of the Web and HTML5 today is on Windows 7 with IE9. The only First Nations experience of the Web and HTML5 today is on Windows 7 with IE9. The only Tribal Council experience of the Web and HTML5 today is on Windows 7 with IE9. Although of course none of this is true because the "Native HTML5" tagline is complete and utter bull****. More importantly the other modern browsers supported SVG, Canvas, GeoLocation, HTML5 form elements, tags and open HTML5 Video and HTML5 Audio ages ago. Not only are Dean's statements completely and utterly bogus but absolutely insulting to the developer community that is trying very hard to give MSFT/IE respect with this latest release.
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April 13, 2011
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Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Altouth IE9 is far the best browser, we designers still can´t use css3 until you don´t forcd the users to update
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
IE NONSTANDARD version 10
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
IE 9 is the best browser even when I play browser games witouth any lag. My blog is http://www.dotmmo.com
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
As a web developer who has suffered through many years of IE6, IE7, and even IE8, I'm ready to like IE. Once upon a time, IE6 was the shiniest, most revolutionary space age browser out there. If you guys can earn that title again, I'm ready to believe in it. You have no idea how many nights I've sat up swearing at IE6 or IE7, but if you're actually going to try to make up for those years of IE6 I'm ready to support you. Just start making a browser worthy of a company with the kind of experience and resources Microsoft has, demonstrating an understanding that the web is an invaluable part of the modern computing experience and I'll be ready to forget about the past. Show us the dev team that created AJAX and revolutionized the web. While you're at it, a real firebug quality DOM inspector, automatic or prompted updates, and native browser testing would be fantastic. If you can't actually let IE9 act as a true tester for older versions, maybe you could release a true Microsoft version of IEtester or something similar? Maybe you could include a fast and reliable DOM inspector in that tester that works in older browsers? All of that would go a really long way toward making our lives as web developers easier and getting our support behind you for the future of the web. Good luck!
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
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Anonymous
April 13, 2011
It would be nice if MS cleaned up the mess first before switching to IE10. The new IE9-javascript engine e.g. has a memory leak in document.close which crashes my websites. The one thing I like about IE is the IF-comments and META's which lets me instruct IE9+ to behave as IE8. Which is exactly what my webpages will do. I already have 3 notebooks on the shelve to test IE6, 7 and 8 and I don't feel like debugging all sites on even more browser versions every time MS decides to "improve" their products. Everything I code on Firefox works in Safari and Chrome without a problem but for IE, I need double time to clean up all quirks. Yes, I hate IE, all versions.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
i love microsoft.really.you are working hard to be the best.but you are trying to do everything hard way..just think simple and make it simple.ie 9 doesnt work well on visual studio when debuging.i dont wanna use firefox or chrome.i want my browser work like them.i want addons like them.pleasee guys make everything simple as possible but not simpler.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
The war has become so intense that to stay put, new products or updated versions need to be there and talked in public... Ultimately consumers are at advantage here... Nice Post www.minhasweb.com
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
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Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Why do you bother. WHHHHHHHHYYYYYYY?????? I can't wait to have 5 sub-standard versions of your browser to support. Do everyone a favour and give up developing browsers.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Give up
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Please give up. Let the little old IE man retire.
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Internet Explorer will never retire.. cause it is the faster then firefox and chrome. Firefox is bloated with add-ons. Chrome, Safari,opera, and firefox all have something in common THEY ARE BLOATED. Microsoft will never let Internet Explorer become bloated. =)
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
awesome - more browsers and their 'quirks' to support === more work which === more $, £, €... sweet. Keep up the confusion. we'll all get paid
Anonymous
April 14, 2011
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April 14, 2011
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Anonymous
April 14, 2011
Although speed and graphical trickery is always welcome, you still lack vision. The problem with IE6 to 8 and even partly IE9 is that:

users are scattered across these versions and now you're adding one more. your whole theory of one markup for all browsers therefore goes down the drain for as long as you do not fix the upgrade problem and OS version dependencies.
you have your priorities wrong. nobody cares about fish. nobody can use fish because of reason 1. So why don't you start fixing problem 1 first.
after 2), you can start fixing and implementing things needed in every project, like forms, drag and drop, uploaders, wider support for CSS3 properties still lacking from IE9.
now you can go show your fish demo Finally, let go of the trolling towards Firefox and Chrome using preselected demos and inconsistent browser versions. Don't insult our intelligence. YOU are the problem on the web, the nightmare of every developer, causing billions in lost productivity. Your tone should be modest, and you should fix the damage you created.

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April 14, 2011
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Anonymous
April 14, 2011
MS , Their never going to be another XP type cash float in your near future ... Your small % of geeks will continue to buy your stuff but everyone else will not until their comps finally die on them ... I E is another sinking ship that will NEVER float again . Google and companies will rule
Anonymous
April 14, 2011
The minute I read "native HTML" this blog lost all credibility -- does Micro$oft think we are all idiots? Evidently so. HTML is a standard for document markup (HyperText Markup Language). It is not, has never been, "native". In fact, the whole idea of it is to provide a platform-agnostic way of presenting content, that should look and feel the same on any browser, and on any OS on any hardware. As someone else pointed out, for HTML to be native it would have to be tied to a specifically designed processor. Now suddenly MS is apparently trying to lay claim to HTML as being "native" to Windows? I am sure the W3C would have something to say about this. The claim is not only misleading... it's an outright lie. I make my living using Microsoft products, but the more I see garbage like this, the more I am seriously considering moving to Linux, OpenOffice, Python, etc...
Anonymous
April 15, 2011
I agree with Mike, this is simple ridiculous! I started hating IE with version 6. And now this. I am happy because I think by doing this misleading from time to time, we will see a lot less IE in the future.
Anonymous
April 15, 2011
"Native HTML..." what is that? Is it some marketing trick to say that windows simply got 2d acceleration in drawing in ie?
Anonymous
April 15, 2011
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April 15, 2011
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Anonymous
April 15, 2011
Make the web experience so horrible (for developers, and expensive for managers), everyone goes back to native applications instead of web applications. Just say no to native web.
Anonymous
April 15, 2011
Please, please, please make color management work in IE10. The fact that it ignores monitor profiles makes it less than useless in IE9, which is why I use Firefox. I cannot and will not go back to a non-color-managed browser (which is what IE9 is, despite MS claims to the contrary).
Anonymous
April 15, 2011
The following website www.cpcbox.com says that IE9 is not HTML5 compliant. Please, can you fix IE so that it actually delivers the most native HTML5 experience on Windows 7?
Anonymous
April 15, 2011
There're still 60% more users who are using IE6 in Chinese. IE 10 ,only a dream.
Anonymous
April 15, 2011
It is hard to believe the level of stupid in the comments here

Vista will be EOL for mainstream support by the time IE10 is released. Microsoft do not release software for EOL operating systems (see: XP).
H264 is an open codec. Just because something is freely open for implementation by third party vendors does not mean it has to be patent free. Also, DRM has nothing to do with a codec being open. It should also be noted that H264 has consistently been tested as having the best video support.
Microsoft have implemented support for widely used FINALISED standards in IE10. Implementing support for rarely used or unfinished standards does not make sense when they have a deadline to meet.
If people think that IE6 was bad then they never had to do web design in the years when Netscape was a dominant browser. Believe me, it was even worse with non standard extensions than IE ever was. Now people will call me a fanboy for pointing out their failures, but I don't really care. I suppose there is no arguing with idiots as they drag you down to their level and then beat you with "experience".

Anonymous
April 15, 2011
Typo in my above comment: where I said IE10 in point 3 I meant to say IE9.
Anonymous
April 15, 2011
Will the source code for IE10 be made available under an OSI compatible license? How much money will upgrades from "ten year old milk" IE6 to IE10 cost? Depending on the answers to these questions Chromium and Firefox might be alternatives!
Anonymous
April 15, 2011
@Andreas Kuckartz: A very small amount of users actually care about open source so I am almost certain it will not. Most users care about having working software, not the freedom to modify it. Not to mention that it is impossible for Microsoft to release code which they dont even fully own.
Anonymous
April 15, 2011
Wow amazing, NATIVE HTML5 support! I am sold, how do I buy this browser?
Anonymous
April 15, 2011
Does the native HTML5 work on Windows XP, the best MS' OS?
Anonymous
April 16, 2011
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Anonymous
April 16, 2011
@alf0924: Not at all. Open source plays an important role in HTML5. Also on web openness. Linux is open source and it powers a lot of servers, supercomputers and some desktop computers...
Anonymous
April 16, 2011
diveintomark.org/.../nativity-scene LULZ
Anonymous
April 16, 2011
Google Chrome is moving up. http://gs.statcounter.com/ I don't see how MS can stem the tide, unless, maybe, they offer a seamless update to IE 6, 7, or 8 on XP. Building for the future of the web sounds great, but it doesn't help anyone one who is using XP now and for the foreseeable future. And in this time between now and the future of the web (or should we rather call it the upgrading from XP to Windows 7), perhaps MS is taking quite a risk, and browser market share will further erode. I just wish MS would do something to show they care about developers who have to deal with IE 6, 7, and 8 on XP.
Anonymous
April 16, 2011
+1 for WebGL. Graphic acceleration is virtually everywhere.
Anonymous
April 16, 2011
Silverlight, with its Windows-only limitation, cannot replace WebGL. 3D hardware accelerated web applications could flourish if IE would support a cross-browser standard.
Anonymous
April 16, 2011
Where is the Mac version? ;)
Anonymous
April 16, 2011
Wakie wakie Microsoft, WebGL is happening!
Anonymous
April 16, 2011
H.264 isn't open if not everyone can view it. If it's open, shouldn't that mean anyone can view the video? "It should also be noted that H264 has consistently been tested as having the best video support." Really? I can't view H.264 in my browser. :/ By the way, OGG and Theora are not unfinished standards.
Anonymous
April 16, 2011
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Anonymous
April 16, 2011
WebGL?
Anonymous
April 16, 2011
Native HTML? What does that even mean? WebGL please.
Anonymous
April 16, 2011
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Anonymous
April 17, 2011
I read a few comments from deluded people who asks for WebM video. As a professional developer for many years, I want to thank you for providing your video in the only universal standard (H264). WebM is only a ploy from Google to fragment the internet video codec landscape. Not to mention it's an inferior technology.
Anonymous
April 17, 2011
"The only native experience of the Web and HTML5 today is on Windows 7 with IE9" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Anonymous
April 17, 2011
Native without WebGL? That's a very funny definition of "Native".
Anonymous
April 17, 2011
@Mike: Considering they were talking about HTML5 when they said native and considering HTML5 spec doesn't include WebGL we can say that you fail in trolling.
Anonymous
April 17, 2011
Any chance to remove the forced clear type text? All major browser (firefox/chrome) honors turned off clear type...
Anonymous
April 17, 2011
This article is 100% marketing nonsense.
Anonymous
April 17, 2011
Seriously, "native HTML5"? What is that? You mean it is not interpreted, it's compiled to native code? Or does it mean this feature was written by native americans only?
Anonymous
April 17, 2011
Just wanted to stop by and say that I really think you should put WebGL in IE. Arguments about fully accelerated HTML5 being better than WebGL is like saying HTML5 is better than video. It's completely different things, and they complement each other. Or are you saying that you're going to implement ray-tracing in CSS? WebGL isn't going to be used for the next version of Wordpress, it's not going to be used for the next version of Gmail, it's going to be used for stuff like this: http://helloracer.com/webgl/
Anonymous
April 17, 2011
I accept that MS is committed to abandoning another version of IE. MS is requiring everyone to have another VM for desktop browser development. I can deal with that. I'm disappointed as a mobile developer that a very interesting avenue for multiplatform 3d development won't be opened up with WebGL support in IE.
Anonymous
April 18, 2011
Y U NO GIVE ME NATIVE!
Anonymous
April 18, 2011
I just had the best "native HTML5" experience on Opera 11.10 x64 on Ubuntu 11.04 beta 2. Good for MS, your "native" stuff works in all plattforms.
Anonymous
April 18, 2011
Hope a better experience. I went back to 8 after running 9.
Anonymous
April 19, 2011
now if you can just get all your users to upgrade their browsers :D looks nice, I love the hardware acceleration! brent @ mimoymima.com
Anonymous
April 19, 2011
Far too late, not at all interested.
Anonymous
April 19, 2011
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Anonymous
April 19, 2011
Hey JC, got a questoin for you. You mention XP in a negative way, yet XP is still one of the most popular operating systems to date and is still used by a huge number of people.
Anonymous
April 19, 2011
LOL @ Mike Can you pose that as a question rather than a statement?
Anonymous
April 19, 2011
With over a decade of problem implementing standards I guess the chance for Microsoft to be successful is over years ago. Developers and designers are tired of using tools that does not apply to the market standards. While Microsoft has being sleeping other companies have done it much much better so I believe the market for MIE is lost already... Opera, Chrome, Safari, Firefox etc etc... Game over Microsoft!
Anonymous
April 20, 2011
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Anonymous
April 20, 2011
When I found IE9 didn't have native WebM support I thought at least IE10 would - why do we have to drag these people into the present?????
Anonymous
April 20, 2011
Nice progress you have made, since IE9. But did ou know, that your Browser is the only major one, than is not available for more than one operating system? Would like to see it for other OSs too, I am not willing to run Windows 7 all the time just to test web pages. The interface of Firefox 4 for Windows is very nice and does not look toy or comic-like, but IEs interface actually does. And please, stop making other browsers bad, just for your advance in hardware acceleration. It's a nice-to-have at the moment, but until everybody else supports it, nobody will be able to take full advantage of… at the moment, most web designers would care more about text-shadow, I think.
Anonymous
April 20, 2011
Thanks for Nice & Beautiful IE 10 I would like to cite a prob with IE10 Preview . I have made my web based application forcefully IE 7 compatible at IIS . It is working fine with IE 8, IE 9 when compatibility either ON or OFF but when I compatibility OFF in IE 10 my links are not working and the related page is not opening with the frame and data. Is the any solution to overcome this Problem?
Anonymous
April 20, 2011
@JohnB: Considering IE core is going to be used in mobile devices, where there is only (at the moment) hardware acceleration for h.264 it seems kind of logical that they wouldn't include WebM support as native. Besides, they do provide users the option of actually using a plugin to provide WebM which is better than nothing if you want WebM support (which I'm happy to keep away from my computer)
Anonymous
April 20, 2011
I personaly think IE10 should have a web store like chrome. Right?
Anonymous
April 21, 2011
It's good to see a new version of IE is under development, but I can't understand why Vista is not supported. I can understand why XP is not supported, mainstream support for XP ended in April 2009. But mainstream support for Vista will only end in April next year, I believe by that time Internet Explorer 10 shoud have been lanched. May be there are a lot of things to do to support IE9 on XP, but supporting IE10 on Vista shouldn't be that difficult. If you guys can't give better reasons, this going to be a hit on you and on the market share of IE.
Anonymous
April 21, 2011
Native HTML5? as in you came and captured it à la Spain and the Aztecs? If that's true, I humbly request you free HTML5. He's really a good chap; deserves better than that, really.
Anonymous
April 22, 2011
The HTML 5 logo: http://www.w3.org/html/logo/ The native HTML 5 logo: en.wikipedia.org/.../File:Windows_7_logo.svg
Anonymous
April 24, 2011
I only want one thing from IE10.... text-shadow support. :)
Anonymous
April 25, 2011
Why go right to IE10? just add this new stuff to IE9 as a service pack?
Anonymous
April 25, 2011
I trust in microsoft programes because it is so good .
Anonymous
April 25, 2011
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Anonymous
April 25, 2011
Very impressive, HTML5 is is the way to go! I wanna short on Adobe stocks when this comes out.
Anonymous
April 25, 2011
I love IE, but till it reports better on HTML5 and CSS3 in this two websites, (IE been the lowest scoring browser and there and my own test ) http://www.browserscope.org/ and html5test.com/results.html give a good idea in how compatible it really is when it comes to every day programing, I was hopping v10 would be better than 9 but I hope is just to early, even though there are sooo far behind... then again it would be nice if we had the final specs for HTML5 and CSS3..
Anonymous
April 25, 2011
i am very interresting trying it thank you microsoft
Anonymous
April 25, 2011
Very impressive, this post drew 340, well with mine, 341 comments. No one can say Microsoft doesn't accept feedback and community opinion. Whether Microsoft acts on it or not is a separate matter.... But this is very tolerant for an official company-sponsored blog regarding release of a new product. It probably wouldn't hurt to moderate some of these comments, although every single one is on topic, or at least is NOT about women's accessories and such!
Anonymous
April 25, 2011
IE9 Fishbowl Demo - Maxed out at 6 FPS But sound and colour were all working properly Firefox 4 " " - Maxed out at 12 FPS With no sound and water colour was orange Chrome 10 " " - Maxed out at 16 FPS With Sound and colour working properly Opera 11.10 " " - Maxed Out at 10 FPS With the same problems as Firefox 4 I think if you are going to review something you should use ALL browsers. It seems the comment "Web sites and HTML5 run best when they run natively, on a browser optimized for the operating system on your device" gives a closed opinion in IEs favour. It seems Chrome just tipped out all of them... hmm interesting But I guess that this is a MS blog so of course you will favour MS Products.
Anonymous
April 25, 2011
Native HTML5? Can we have Native HTTP and Native SSL too to complete the experience? That would be utter sweetness. Please provide Native TCP/IP while you are at it! thanks!
Anonymous
April 25, 2011
mac kille olis hyvä jos olis oma versionsa musta on väärin että microsoft tekee vaan ohjelmia itselleen. toki ymärtäähän sen

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