IE 10 differences between Windows 7 and 8

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/jj819730(v=vs.85).aspx

by dherken • 14 years ago

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mmcnickle• 14 years ago

The differences all appear to be related to touch, which is not too surprising.

masklinn3• 14 years ago

Yep, apparently it's solely the new MS touch/pointer API which is missing. Which is kinda weird considering they submitted their pointer API to the W3C as an alternative to Apple's touch events, it's not going to help their case if they don't bother implementing it themselves.

codeulike• 14 years ago

Perhaps because they came up with it after Windows 7?

dmethvin• 14 years ago

There aren't a lot of Windows 7 touch devices, and the ones that do exist have proprietary drivers since Win7 doesn't support touch. It doesn't make sense for Microsoft to spend a lot of time back-porting the whole touch system to Win7 and then pleading with OEMs to provide touch drivers there as well. Even assuming they were able to do both of those successfully, you'd be stuck using touch with Win7 desktop apps unless they back-ported Metro to Win7 as well.

Doesn't make a lot of sense once you write it all out.

OriginalSyn• 14 years ago

IE10 behaviour differs between Windows 8 Metro and Desktop. If you're on metro, websites that use flash for certain things (e.g., our web site uses it for image zoom, video and audio file previews.) We have to submit to Microsoft for whitelisting, or more hopefully we can finally convince our business to let us switch to HTML5 but that will require reprocessing hundreds of thousands of videos and audio files that are huge.

tuxracer• 14 years ago

FYI Flash no longer needs videos in an FLV container. If you use h.264 video in an MP4 container that can be directly played by Flash, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, Android, and iOS. You still may have to reprocess legacy videos but going forward you wont have to maintain different versions of videos depending on platform if you use an MP4 container and h.264 video.

IE 10 differences between Windows 7 and 8

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