Sunday, September 18, 2011

Internet Explorer adheres to the rapid development cycle

Overshadowed the party on Monday due to the presentation of the official presentation of the Windows Developer Preview 8, Internet Explorer Platform Preview 10 - which as the name implies is a testbed for the next generation of Microsoft's browser hated - came earlier this week.


Besides the old commitment to be more compatible with web standards, now the program also comes with a responsibility to give life to the apps of the newest generation of the operating system of their parent company.

According to Microsoft, under the hood the new Internet Explorer should be compatible with a variety of patterns, gradients, shadows and 3D transformations with CSS3, HTML5 cache for applications, among other technical enhancements.

In addition, its interface was redesigned to be all used in devices with touch screen.

All about: Windows 8


10 Internet Explorer Platform Preview at the interface of Windows Developer Preview 8
It was also confirmed that after its release Microsoft will get in on the Chrome and Firefox, imposing a policy of rapid development for new versions of your program that will be updated at intervals of 12 weeks.

But the big news of the program will be the responsibility of giving life to the web application interface present in Metro's new operating system. All of these new apps initial screen of Windows 8 will actually web applications running on the slightly IE10 directly on the screen of the system. According to MS, this news will allow developers to have greater flexibility to create their own applications.

Those interested in testing the new version of Internet Explorer, bad news: for now it only comes loaded with Windows 8, but versions compatible with Windows 7 should appear soon.