Posted by December 12, 2012
on We've added Internet Explorer 10 to Browserling's browsers! You can now cross-browser test your webapps and websites in IE10. Currently IE 10 is available to our paying customers. You can try IE9 in Browserling for free.
Try IE10 in Browserling now (if you've developer plan. Otherwise choose IE9 that is available in free trial):
New features in IE10:
- Adobe Flash integration within Internet Explorer.
- Metro user interface (available on Windows 8 only.)
- Flip Ahead for quickly going to "next page."
- Support for CSS3 multi-column layout.
- CSS3 grid layout.
- CSS3 flexible box layout.
- CSS3 gradients.
- ES5 strict mode.
- Support for Positioned Floats.
- CSS stylesheet limit lifted.
- CSSOM Floating Point Value support.
- Improved hit testing APIs.
- Media Query Listeners.
- Support for HTML
async
attribute on script elements. - HTML5 Drag and Drop.
- HTML5 File API.
- HTML5 Sandbox.
- HTML5 Web Workers.
- HTML5 History.
- HTML5 Video Text Captioning.
- HTML5 track element for HTML5 video captions.
- HTML5 BlobBuilder API.
- HTML5 Application Cache.
- Local storage with IndexedDB.
- Web Performance APIs.
- Support for Windows 8.
- CSS 3D Transforms.
- CSS Text shadow.
- SVG Filter Effects.
- Spellchecking.
- Autocorrection.
- Web Sockets.
- InPrivate tabs.
- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing.
- File API Writer.
- JavaScript Typed Arrays (WebGL).
- CSS user select property.
- Updated Quirks Mode.
- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for XMLHttpRequest.
- CSS
-ms-user-select
property. - CSS3
font-feature-settings
property to access advanced OpenType features. - Document setting to enable floating point values in CSS-OM.
- A new APIs to save or open files.
- Interoperable HTML5 Quirks mode.
- JavaScript Typed Arrays.
- Support for latest HTML5 WebSocket API.
- Meta tag to alert user that site requires ActiveX add-ons available only in desktop IE10.
- Web Worker thread pooling.
- Removal of app switch button.
- New UI for search results.
- Integration of touch-friendly Adobe Flash Player.
- "Do not track"-flag set by default.
- Support for CSS transitions.
- Support for CSS transforms.
- Support for CSS animations.
- Support for CSS gradients.
- Support for CSS Fonts'
font-feature-settings
property. - Indexed Database API (IndexedDB).
- API for requestAnimationFrame() in their unprefixed forms, but still supports their prefixed forms.
- A new user agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; [platform token] Trident/6.0; Touch)
.
Removed (deprecated) features:
- Removal of legacy graphics features from IE10 standards mode.
- Removal of legacy DX filters from all of the document modes (can be re-enabled using the Internet Options dialog).
- Conditional comments in HTML (JavaScript conditional comments still work).
- DirectX-based filters and transitions (DX filters).
- Element behaviors and HTML Components (HTCs).
- XML data islands.
- Vector Markup Language (VML).
- Content Advisor (taken over by Windows Parental Controls or Microsoft Family Safety).
Happy cross-browser testing in Internet Explorer 10!
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