Revision history
This topic describes the changes to Internet Explorer 10 Guide for Developers.
December 7, 2012: Content refresh, with information added about:
November 13, 2012: Updated for Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview for Windows 7:
Noted the APIs that are unsupported in Windows 7:
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