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by dstorey 12y ago
The result is the same when comparing nightly builds. Actually IE updates each month now. Previously only critical updates were included on “patch Tuesdays”, but now features are added too. That is not to say that these particular features
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The most ECMAScript 6 compatible browser? Not the one you’d expect(twitter.com)
1 points by dstorey 12y ago|2 comments
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by dstorey 12y ago
The VMs are not going anywhere. This is an additional service for those that can’t or don’t want to use virtual machines, or find this more convenient.
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by dstorey 12y ago
> IE11 just got prefetch and pre rendering, something the other browsers have had for years Actually, Safari still doesn’t support either, and Firefox doesn’t support prerender. See http://status.modern.ie/prerenderattrib
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by dstorey 12y ago
You’ll be pleased to know that we just updated it yesterday. A good chunk of ES6 is now under development. See the IE blog for further info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/09/18/updates
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by dstorey 12y ago
Windows Phone 8.1 Update is final yet. It is in developer preview. You can get the preview right now by registering as a developer and downloading the Windows Phone for Developers preview app. See https://dev.windows.com/en-
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by dstorey 12y ago
You can get free VMs at https://modern.ie/en-gb/virtualization-tools . And also a free 3 month BrowserStack trail from the same site.
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Internet Explorer announce new features in development(status.modern.ie)
1 points by dstorey 12y ago|0 comments
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by dstorey 12y ago
I believe the data from the Chakra (IE’s JS engine) team hasn’t been updated yet.
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by dstorey 12y ago
It’s under consideration.
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by dstorey 12y ago
Microsoft are contributing to Object RTC, so I see this as unlikely.
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by dstorey 12y ago
There are only 13 features listed there not currently supported in IE and supported by Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Of those, 4 are currently in development.
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by dstorey 12y ago
Object RTC is under consideration instead.
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by dstorey 12y ago
Object RTC is developed by a community group at the W3C. It includes people from Google, Microsoft and a number of telecom companies, amongst others http://www.w3.org/community/ortc/
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by dstorey 13y ago
You can write native “metro” apps in Windows 8 with web technology and the Win.JS framework.
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by dstorey 13y ago
Even if IE11 has only “almost caught up”, that means, as you point out, that inertia to change will mean existing users will be less likely to switch away from IE, as alternative browsers will no longer be significantly better. Just that wi
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by dstorey 13y ago
MS has also focused a lot on security in its WebGL support. For example, it security audits the drivers.
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by dstorey 13y ago
Many people use conditional comments, but I wouldn’t go as far as saying most use them. There are tons of browser sniffing scripts out there on the web. I used to have to deal with them all the time when doing web site compatibility for Ope
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by dstorey 13y ago
IE has had auto-update since IE9. IE9 is in the process of being auto-updated to IE10, unless auto-update has been disabled.
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by dstorey 13y ago
I don‘t see why not. Two of the editors of the HTML5.1 spec are Microsoft representatives: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/
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by dstorey 13y ago
EME, MSE, and Web Crypto are very new specifications. They’re just starting to be rolled out in browsers. They’re not going to be rolled out everywhere overnight. H.264 video codec is on pretty much every major browser now, including Firefo
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by dstorey 13y ago
The key specs for all this to work are: * Web Cryptography API[1], edited by Mozilla and Google * Media Source Extensions[2], edited by Google , Microsoft and Netflix * Encrypted Media Extensions[3], edited by Google , Microsoft and N
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by dstorey 13y ago
Netflix already support ChromeOS on Samsung Chrome books using this method. Only that Chrome doesn’t support an end to end solution, as it doesn’t support the Crypto API, so Netflix rolled their own. They also support a different DRM plug-i
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by dstorey 13y ago
Yes. IE11 will be on Windows 7: http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/26/microsoft-internet-explor...
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by dstorey 14y ago
I’m not sure there are many former employees that are speaking out in public. The ones I’ve seen are my own (obviously), Chaals, and Wilhelm’s comment here. All of us left of our own free will, (long) before these latest layoffs happened. I
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by dstorey 14y ago
I’ve added 1080p to Android. The currently announced phone has a 5" diagonal. I'd like to include screen size too, but I'm not sure how to include it in the table. Having a row for each resolution/size combo would end up a bit much. Especia
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by dstorey 15y ago
It is quite scary how much one has to learn compared to the old days if you’re just starting off on the Web. I did a post a while ago [0] that features a lot of these. It’s a long list. The games industry went through something similar, whe
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by dstorey 15y ago
The CSS filter property comes from SVG [0], and has been around for quite a long time already. IE 10 will support filters in SVG [1], so IE should be able to cope with it ok. [0] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG10/filters.html#FilterProperty [1]