14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has announced a wide range of enhancements brought to Internet Explorer 10 in its new Windows 8 Release Preview, yet it seems that there are others too aimed at delivering a better experience to all users.
The goal is to provide users with a consistent “same markup, same results” approach across browsers, and IE9 and IE10 line up to it.
Both of them come with CSS3 features inside, providing websites with the possibility to move to standards-based features for their graphical effects.
Thus, the company decided to remove legacy visual filters and transitions from IE10’s Standards and Quirks modes after first introducing them in IE4, given the fact that they deliver inferior performance when compared to their standards-based replacements.
Now, the Redmond-based software giant announces that it has decided to completely remove these from all document modes for all sites in the Internet zone in the latest Internet Explorer 10 browser flavor packed inside Windows 8 Release Preview.
However, the company also says that the features will still be available in IE10’s document modes 5, 7, 8, and 9 for sites in the Local Intranet and Trusted Sizes zones.
“There is no mechanism for a Web site developer to enable legacy filters on their pages,” Ted Johnson, lead program manager, Internet Explorer Graphics, Microsoft, notes.
“Now is the time to make the move to standards-based markup and use IE10’s new CSS3 features instead of legacy DX Filters.”
End users will be provided with the possibility to change the default rendering of legacy filters in the Security tab in the Internet Options dialog.
“Select the zone to change and touch or click ‘Custom level…’. In the Security Settings dialog for that zone, scroll down to the Option ‘Render legacy filters’ in the ‘Miscellaneous’ section. There you may enable or disable the rendering of filters for all sites in that zone,” Ted Johnson explains.
He also adds that system administrators will be able to control these settings for all people that are using the Group Policy.
Ted Johnson also notes that users should be able to enjoy browsers that support the same standards-based markup and that sites should serve the same standards-based content to all browsers. Thus, devs should strongly consider moving away from IE’s legacy filter features.
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