Revision history

This topic describes the changes to Internet Explorer 10 Guide for Developers.

December 7, 2012: Content refresh, with information added about:

• Flip ahead browsing

November 13, 2012: Updated for Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview for Windows 7:

• Noted the APIs that are unsupported in Windows 7:

  • DOM: Pointer and gesture events
  • CSS: Scrolling and zooming with touch

• Clarified UA string for Windows 7

• Updated Using aria-haspopup to simulate hover on touch-enabled devices with Windows 7 information

• Clarified section on HTML History

• Added section about Console methods

• Minor editorial changes

October 26, 2012: Updated for Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 General Availability, with the following changes:

• Added more information about requestAnimationFrame method
• Minor editorial changes

August 17, 2012: Updated for Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8, with the following changes:

• Removed "preliminary" language
• Added information about new user-agent string tokens
• Added section about scrolling and zooming with touch and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

June 13, 2012: Content refresh, with information added about:

• Added information about use of aria-haspopup property to simulate hover for touch-based systems

May 31, 2012: Updated for Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview for Windows 8 Release Preview, with the following changes:

• Organization simplified
• Performance APIs requestAnimationFrame and setImmediate no longer require "ms" prefix
• CSS Transitions, Animations, and Transforms properties no longer require "-ms-" prefix
• Flexbox properties updated to correspond to current World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) spec
• ECMAScript 5 section renamed to JavaScript

March 20, 2012: Content refresh, with information added about:

• Pinned sites notifications
• Typed arrays support

February 29, 2012: Updated for Internet Explorer 10 Consumer Preview for Windows 8 Consumer Preview:

• New section about Windows 8 integration
• Minor updates, including product versioning changes

December 13, 2011: Content refresh, with information added about:

• The -ms-user-select CSS property
• CSS device adaptation
• Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3) Fonts

Also included:

• All new features listed and linked from the entry page
• Fixed broken/inactive links
• Other minor cleanup

November 29, 2011: Updated for Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview Build 4.

Includes information about:

• CSS3:

  • Positioned Floats renamed to Exclusions and examples added
  • Sample images and pages added to Flexbox
  • Added new repeating syntax for Grid

• HTML5:

  • Video: Respecting recorded video orientation
  • File API improvements
  • Web Worker Thread Pooling

• Document Object Model (DOM):

  • XMLHttpRequest improvements
  • CORS

Other additions include:

• Moved Guide to MSDN Library
• Broke out detailed sections into their own topics
• General cleanup

September 13, 2011: Updated for Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 Developer Preview and BUILD Conference with information about:

• CSS Regions

• CSS3:

  • 3D Transforms
  • Animations
  • Panning and Zooming
  • Transitions
  • Text (text-shadow property and hyphenation)

• Pointer and gesture DOM events

• Improved F12 support:

  • Web workers
  • Multiple script sources

• HTML5:

  • Application Cache ("AppCache")
  • Progress and Range controls
  • History
  • Spellcheck

• Web Sockets

• Indexed Database ("IndexedDB")

• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Filter Effects

• Navigation Timing

July 12, 2011: Updated with information about:

• HTML5 Parsing

July 8, 2011: Updated with information about:

• Channel Messaging

June 29, 2011: Updated for Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2, with information about:

• Positioned Floats

• CSS3 Gradients (on all image types)

• CSS style sheet limit lifted

• CSS Object Model (CSSOM) Floating Point Value support

• Improved hit testing APIs

• Media Query Listeners

• HTML5:

  • Support for async attribute on script elements
  • Drag and Drop
  • File API
  • Sandbox
  • Web Workers

• Web Performance APIs:

  • requestAnimationFrame
  • Page Visibility API
  • setImmediate

April 12, 2011: Created for Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview for MIX, with information about:

• Flexbox Layout
• Grid Alignment
• CSS3 Multi-column
• CSS3 Gradients (on background images)
• ECMAScript Language Specification, 5th edition strict mode
• Compatibility View List
• User-agent string
• How to send feedback

Related topics

Internet Explorer 10 Guide for Developers