Native HTML5: First IE10 Platform Preview Available for Download

[sujay]

IE10 Platform Preview 1, available for download today is the first step in delivering the next wave of progress in native HTML5 support. Web sites and HTML5 run best when they run natively, on a browser optimized for the operating system on your device.
We built IE9 from the ground up for HTML5 and for Windows to deliver the most native HTML5 experience and the best Web experience on Windows. IE10 continues on IE9’s path, directly using what Windows provides and avoiding abstractions, layers, and libraries that slow down your site and your experience:

An Early Look at IE10

We’re about three weeks into development of IE10, and based on the progress we’ve made, we want to start engaging the development community now. At the MIX conference today, we showed the new browsing engine along with several new browser test drives that anyone on the Web can try out. You can run these at www.ietestdrive.com to see emerging standards like CSS3 Multi-column Layout (link), CSS3 Grid Layout (link) and CSS3 Flexible Box Layout (link), CSS3 Gradients (link), and ES5 Strict Mode in action. We also demonstrated additional standards support (like CSS3 Transitions (link) and CSS3 3D Transforms (link)) that will be available in subsequent platform previews of IE10, which we will update every 8-12 weeks.

Looking Forward

IE9 delivers native support for HTML5 on Windows. Now, your sites can deliver significantly better experiences in IE9 on Windows today.
IE10 continues several patterns from IE9. In addition to the Platform Preview available for developers to download at www.ietestdrive.com, we have posted new test drives and over 500 new tests we’ve submitted to the standards bodies. IE’s approach to emerging standards results in less churn and more progress for developers. IE10 builds on full hardware acceleration and continues our focus on site-ready Web-standards. This combination enables developers to deliver the best performance for their customers on Windows while using the same, Web-standard markup across browsers.
We look forward to continuing to engage the community and hearing your feedback.
—Dean Hachamovitch, Corporate Vice President, Internet Explorer

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/04/12/native-html5-first-ie10-platform-preview-available-for-download.aspx

[Student26]

Seeing as IE 9 has had relatively strong reviews there might be some in the forum who are interested in using the Preview build of IE 10.

Internet Explorer Test Drive

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Here's some Microsoft release notes to those interested

Have yet to try it, having jumped onto the firefox 4 bandwagon, but am interested to see Microsoft (apparently) quicken the development process.

More info

[hsakarp_kahtap]

thanks student for the link

[hsakarp_kahtap]

thanks sujay da , interesting share

[INDRANIL]

Nice one sujay bro .

[leofelix]

Threads merged

[Ceyfer √]

So, they now followed Chrome like dev't phase. That's benchmarking!

[sujay]

It was more or less clear that Microsoft’s upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 10 would not support Windows XP, considering that Internet Explorer 9 did not support the operating system as well. Windows Vista users on the other hand were caught by surprise that their operating system would not be supported by IE10 as well.

http://www.ghacks.net/2011/04/14/internet-explorer-10-will-not-support-vista-xp/

[INDRANIL]

Whoa that's great .