14 DAY TRIAL // Early adopters that want to get insight into the HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 features of Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 can do so via a guide that Microsoft is offering for developers.
At BUILD last week, the Redmond company introduced not only the Windows Developer Preview, but also Platform Preview 3 of IE10.
The “Internet Explorer 10 Guide for Developers” also went live on September 13th, 2011, along with IE10 PP3 and Windows 8 Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3).
“The Internet Explorer 10 Guide for Developers provides an early look at the developer features coming to the next version of Internet Explorer, as well as the latest HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 features available to developers of Metro style apps for Windows 8. By using the documentation and samples in this guide, developers and designers can prepare to use these new features,” the software giant notes.
Available via MSDN, the guide is offered free of charge to early adopters. The same is the case of the Windows Developer Preview, the first public testing Build of Windows 8, and the only way for early adopters to take IE10 Platform Preview 3 (PP3) out for a spin.
“The contents of this guide apply solely to the pre-release version of Internet Explorer 10 included with the Windows 8 Developer Preview, as well as to Metro style apps for Windows 8,” the Redmond company underlines.
Microsoft promised to offer a future Platform Preview of IE10 for Windows 7 as well, but not PP3, which is offered exclusively on Windows 8.
“The pre-release version of Internet Explorer 10 included with the Windows 8 Developer Preview is not yet available for Windows 7, nor are we releasing a new Internet Explorer Platform Preview for Windows 7 at this time. The most recent release for Windows 7 was Internet Explorer Platform Preview Build 2, on June 29, 2011,” the company said.
Developers will be able to take advantage of specific new IE10 features only in the PP3 Build running on Windows 8, and not on the PP2 release for Windows 7.
Features including CSS3 text-shadow, HTML5 Application Cache and spellcheck, Web Sockets, IndexedDB, and many others can only be leveraged by devs testing IE10 on Windows 8.
Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3) is available for download here.