Improved Windows integration such as phone number recognition, live tiles and reading view.High DPI support - enhanced scaling for high-resolution screens.

IE11 has some innovations you won’t necessarily find in other browsers yet. It may not be essential, but it’s very useful. You should also note that legacy APIs such as document.all and attachEvent have been binned in IE11 (see Compatibility below).įor me, the only disappointment is the continued omission of transform-style: preserve-3d when applying 3D transformations to multiple elements.

the Web Cryptography API (to send secure data without requiring SSL).

JavaScript enhancements such as block-scoped variables, container objects, an Internationalization API and the _proto_ property.

the Fullscreen and Screen Orientation APIs.

There are some excellent demonstrations of the technology at. First impressions are good and performance appears to be better than Chrome and Firefox.

The big new feature is WebGL … it seems Microsoft has overcome their security risk concerns. In practice, you’re unlikely to encounter more issues in IE than you would with any other browser. While IE remains below the levels achieved by Chrome and Firefox, the missing facilities are mostly recent, niche or deprecated HTML5 features such as the Web Audio API, Web SQL Database and codec support (which may appear if you have them installed in Windows).

As you’d expect, IE11 surpasses IE10: Browser

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