Readit Newsgreat. now you will
be blocked occasionally when site is down or your connection is bad.
not be able to save a predefined vm and reboot it every 30 days like before.
they will certainly not take into account your important project that is due tomorrow when planning for site upgrades as you would if it were local.
and to top my day: now i will have to wait legal to allow me to test secret project of the day on a3rd party service.
... please Microsoft, don't pull an apple and take those vms down just yet.
The VMs are not going anywhere. This is an additional service for those that can’t or don’t want to use virtual machines, or find this more convenient.
Is there a reason any other devs want it to be relevant??
On the consumer side, IE is great(ish) with low power usage, good font rendering, tie-in with other MS services, native features, etc.
For developers, um no, I can attest to absolutely detesting IE in every way. Its web dev tools are slow and clunky, they are getting beat over the head in features by Chrome, Firefox and even Safari, IE11 just got prefetch and pre rendering, something the other browsers have had for years; IE looks like it will always be playing catch up. Good thing they put an auto updater in their browser, but has there been any significant upgrades to IE's feature set in the past year (implementing features over a time other than every year is important as well)?
The worst part is that Microsoft always gives the previous version a reason to exist and be a pain. With Google and Firefox, the auto updater takes care of itself. With IE11, it has just gotten an auto updater and there's no telling if Microsoft will pull an IE10/Windows 8 and stop updating IE for Windows 8.1. Already I can envision in a year or two at work we'll have to support IE10 at the least, even though it should be dead. The fact that Microsoft skipped Windows 8 (which you cannot upgrade Windows 8.1 if you have the Enterprise or education edition) really burned me. At least Apple always updates its browser one version back if you don't decide to upgrade OS X.
> IE11 just got prefetch and pre rendering, something the other browsers have had for years
Actually, Safari still doesn’t support either, and Firefox doesn’t support prerender. See http://status.modern.ie/prerenderattribute?term=pre and http://status.modern.ie/prefetchattribute?term=pre
The data from the links above is pulled in from Google‘s ChromeStatus site.
Also IE is updated regularly now. Feature updates are often included in patch Tuesday updates, such as big upgrades to WebGL and WebDriver support. As features are implemented (see in development in the links above) they're evaluated to see if they will be included in IE11 updates.
the only thing i care about for the next version of IE is progress on this list...
http://status.modern.ie/?iestatuses=notplanned,underconsider...
You’ll be pleased to know that we just updated it yesterday. A good chunk of ES6 is now under development. See the IE blog for further info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/09/18/updates-to-our...
dstorey commented on Mobile Internet Explorer's New User Agent googlesystem.blogspot.com... · Posted by u/Garbage
Ah I misunderstood. I've just had WP 8.1 installed like a week ago (vendor version hence the delay probably), I'd have to wait next couple of weeeks for the update. Thanks for the info.
Windows Phone 8.1 Update is final yet. It is in developer preview. You can get the preview right now by registering as a developer and downloading the Windows Phone for Developers preview app. See https://dev.windows.com/en-us/develop/phone-updates
Warning: you may void your warranty.
dstorey commented on Announcing Internet Explorer Developer Channel blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archi... · Posted by u/robin_reala
Everybody that targets business users.
Funny thing: I have the opposite problem right now, I'm using a site that is targeted strictly towards business users and I don't have IE anywhere here so it's been nothing but trouble for me over the last couple of days.
You can get free VMs at https://modern.ie/en-gb/virtualization-tools . And also a free 3 month BrowserStack trail from the same site.
dstorey commented on Status IE – IE's feature status and plans status.modern.ie/... · Posted by u/paulirish
dstorey commented on Status IE – IE's feature status and plans status.modern.ie/... · Posted by u/paulirish
Of course, given the relative release cycles, that's like comparing a Chrome version 3 or 4 version numbers ahead of the current Dev channel release against current IE.