In case you were not
sure, Microsoft wants you to really, really understand that Internet Explorer
10 is not just an update to the old much-maligned browser. The latest example:
"modern.IE", a set of tools to help Web developers, the company announced
today.
"It is too
difficult to test sites across different OS and browsers," said Ryan
Gavin, general manager of Internet Explorer, in a telephone interview with CNET
yesterday. "From our side, we can encourage the best practices. We know we
can do better here, so we provide the tools and support so that developers
spend most of their time innovating and less time to test them. "
"Innovating longer, less testing time," Gavin shows a phrase of the
day, something he repeats throughout our conversation. Modern.IE Microsoft
clearly believes that tools will appeal to developers.
Submit a URL in the
text field analysis tool, and he turns against a report with suggestions on how
to improve your site divided into three categories. The first is a little long
delay which decomposes household problems that have arisen to support older
versions of Internet Explorer. Microsoft puts money and manpower behind
modern.IE. Gavin explained that if the tool is known bugs related to a site,
the tool will assign the bug IDs and allow developers to request access to the
IE engineering team. "We will work with you on these specific bugs,"
he said. "Right now, we're running a 48-hour turnaround from the e-mail
when we return to you."
The scanner will also
return to other issues that developers can fix themselves. This includes things
like jQuery framework obsolete, which is important because 91 percent of
developers are now using jQuery, Gavin. In this case, the report recommends
that the next version of jQuery compatible minimize testing.
Other problems
include the search scanner compatibility issues, common prefixes CSS issues
library databases, conditional comments, and browser detection, including older
versions of IE instead sensing features of the now preferred. "40 percent
of the first 5,000 sites [by traffic volume and] use libraries obsolete,"
said Gavin.
The second component
is the ratio modern.IE a set of tools to facilitate virtual test update and
maintain standards. To this end, Microsoft works with the emulator browser BrowserStack
tests to test any combination of hardware, operating system and browser.
Usually, the service is around $ 20 per month, Gavin said, but Microsoft will
focus on the first three months. Microsoft has built Firefox and Chrome addons
for BrowserStack to provide one-click access to services, rationalization of
its use.
The third component
in the report modern.IE is a suggestion of best coding practices in the future.
While Gavin warned that guidelines can not cover all aspects of coding for the
modern Web, he said that if developers follow the suggestions from Microsoft
they will "prevent 99 percent of coding problems."
The list of
recommendations has some heft behind it, too. It is being organized by Dave
Methvin, jQuery Foundation President and Rey Bango, a technical evangelist at
Microsoft and former member of the jQuery project.
"We're going to
iterate and improve the period ended," said Gavin. "We would like
your feedback developer to continue this course." If developers are
willing to forgive Microsoft for his previous hard-line approach for developing
Web is another story.
We reached out to
individual developers from their point of view modern.IE and will update with
comments from them when they come to us.
