Friday, July 1, 2011

Internet Explorer 10 will be supported until 2022

At three months old, the Internet Explorer browser 9 is already a veteran who saw competitors Chrome and Firefox gaining one or two generations. Far from being a novelty, the Redmond giant's eyes are now directed to the next generation program, which had some news this week.


The first was the launch of a new trial version that includes an engine responsible for giving life to the touch interface demo of Windows 8, presented earlier this month. Another novelty was the introduction of new testing sites (made ​​by themselves) must prove that A + B for the new version of the program is fully compatible with the new web standards including CSS 3, and a sandbox for developing sites HTML5.

"With improved support for HTML5 in IE10, developers can create pages and applications even more amazing," he said in a statement Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president of Internet Explorer.

Hachamovitch took the release of news to remember that your browser versions tend to be updated throughout life of Windows to have been designed, pointing out that IE should have 10 updates to 2022 - nudge accurate in Mozilla, which ended the support for Firefox 4 so that the FF 5 was made available to the public, displeasing senior IT managers around the world studying the application of the late browser on their networks.

Those interested can visit this site to download the Internet Explorer Platform Preview. Because it is a trial version, its use is recommended only for developers, since it does not have much use for an average user.