IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released

Re:IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released by dave1010uk on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @05:58PM (#2711570)

IE's rate of adopting new features seems to be catching up with the other browsers. For technical details, see their Guide for Developers [1].

The interesting bits since the 1st preview (for me, a web developer) are:

    More CSS gradients
    Async script tags
    Form validation
    Web workers
    Drag and drop and File API

Things I'd really like to see in IE10 before its released (and are hopefully realistic):

    More HTML5 form stuff
    CSS3 text shadow
    CSS3 animations and transitions
    History API

As I'm wishing away, I'll add: support for XP, WebM/Ogg video support and a friendly public bugtracker.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/gg192966.aspx

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Re:IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released by kenjackson on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @06:16PM (#2711638)

I agree that those four items you mentioned I think would make IE10 a very competent browser. Do you have any idea how hard they each are to implememnt (since they've all been implemented in existing browsers)?

Regarding XP support -- I hope they never support it. I really wish the OS would go away. They do support WebM today, just install the codec. Presumably if you have Chrome on your machine, WebM will work with IE (I assume Chrome installs the codec). Given that IE is not open source, you will almost certainly never see a public bugtracker.

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Re:IE10 Platform Preview 2 Released by sliverstorm on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @07:12PM (#2711764)

Agreed on XP. It's just a complete dead-end waste of effort at this point. XP is already 11 years old, and two major releases have happened since. Even RHEL2 is newer!

It was plenty good 6 years ago, but time marches on.

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