Internet Explorer: Microsoft plans 'silent' updates
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Will be interesting to see if the final build of IE10 has better standards support. I always quite liked IE9 from a user perspective, but can imagine it'd be a pain from a developer perspective.
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Only thing mentioned for IE10 is CSS3 gradients, which is a bit meh.
There's been no mention of HTML5 support, which is the major PITA about IE at the moment.
There's been no mention of HTML5 support, which is the major PITA about IE at the moment.
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They're delaying the implementation of HTML5 because it'll put a bullet into Silverlight - not that that wasn't stillborn in the first place.
Silverlight must be one of the greatest mistakes in Microsofts history, how a multi-billion dollar business can so badly misjudge something I don't know. Everyone hated flash, html5 is now here and they think people are going to take up silverlight? They must be high. Even a child has the common sense to know that silverlight was dead before it began.
Silverlight keeps stopping me from uploading photos to photobucket and facebook, infact, it stops me uploading filetype even attaching stuff to hotmail. I have to uninstall, reboot and reinstall to fix it
They've killed off Silverlight anyway now. Don't see why they wouldn't want to drive a stake into its heart.
To sum up what a member of the IE team said to me recently:
1) They know their browsers will last for 10 years, IE6 was the example. They don't want to make the same rushed mistakes again like with IE6. They have a budget to make sure IE6 is taken care of.
2) The guys who made IE6 no longer work for MS.
3) They are making sure everything they put in IE is done correctly, so it won't have everything but the stuff it does have, they claim, is done the right way.
To sum up what a member of the IE team said to me recently:
1) They know their browsers will last for 10 years, IE6 was the example. They don't want to make the same rushed mistakes again like with IE6. They have a budget to make sure IE6 is taken care of.
2) The guys who made IE6 no longer work for MS.
3) They are making sure everything they put in IE is done correctly, so it won't have everything but the stuff it does have, they claim, is done the right way.
Html5 is the future they've acknowledged this and ie10 is focused on html5
The app version of ie10 im pretty sure is html5 only, no flash or silverlight.
Still 8.5% of the market and places like china 25%, massive security risk which impacts on everyone.
Which is why this along with the app killing in the other thread is brilliant. Unlike your idea of compromised computers only affecting their owners. This just isn't the case. How do you think attacks on websites work. It's using controlled computers, so these compromised machines impact on you who has everything upto date.
It's a bit like vaccinations the more vaccinated the better off everyone is.
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Yep. The amount I see each day with IE6 or IE7 is shocking.
You are totally misinformed, sir.
Even IE9 has market leading HTML5 support. Nobody else comes close. The rivals have got some serious catching up to do because you can't have a legitimate HTML5 engine without GPU acceleration first and foremost. What's the point in supporting JavaScript driven HTML5 canvas animations if it renders at 3 frames per second?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ie9+html5
Or are you talking about the "HTML5 wave" of technologies such as WebSockets, WebWorkers, SVG, WebGL etc? Because none of these are part of the HTML5 specification. And Microsoft's reluctance on implementing them in IE9 has been proven correct because these draft standards have already changed several times since IE9 was launched. IE10 will have WebWorkers and WebSockets, for absolute sure.
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Where did you get these classic sound bites from. You couldn't get it more wrong
it's entirely based around html5
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/14/metro-style-browsing-and-plug-in-free-html5.aspx
Sure you mean ie9? I've never had a problem with ie9 before. Usually ends up being Firefox which is the problem.
Hell yeah! I was delighted when I heard this, granted IE8 still has its own problems but removing IE6/7 is a godsend
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Rather embarrassingly we still have quite a few computers running IE6 or 7 at the school I work at. We probably have some really old machines running 5.5 somewhere. I would update them to IE8 but a lot of the computers are so flaming slow I could retire before the IE install actually completes!
The op sounds confused on the matter...
This update is about 5 years too late but a step in teh right direction for the company that no one in their right mind should touch ie6 and it should be deleted from the world (basically the important info from the news). I welcome it, even if I don't care much for ie.
This update is about 5 years too late but a step in teh right direction for the company that no one in their right mind should touch ie6 and it should be deleted from the world (basically the important info from the news). I welcome it, even if I don't care much for ie.