Microsoft has in a blogposting, a number of possibilities to web developers, proposed, and in particular mobile websites with Internet Explorer 10 to work. Currently, many mobile sites are optimized for mobile devices dominant webkit engine, making it not always function properly on other browsers.
Internet Explorer 10 compliant, according to Microsoft, almost entirely on the html5 standard. The browser is not only included in Windows 8, but also Windows Phone 8. Web developers that sites are suitable for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets in recent years, however, specifically focus on browsers that use the webkit engine. Webkit is used in the stockbrowsers of iOS and Android.
In an attempt to mobile websites for webkit are optimized correctly to show and function in IE10, Microsoft has on its Windows Phone Developer Blog in a posting a number of tips and tricks released. The proposed IE10-optimizations that developers in the html and css3 source code would be able to implement, among others, offer a solution to websites that use the already approved css and dom properties. For example, many mobile websites in the source code still called the webkit-specific prefixes, which are no longer strictly necessary, for example, the css property ‘-webkit-box-shadow ” instead of the standard ‘box-shadow’.
More complex is the handling of touch input that is different in webkit browsers and IE10. While webkit-based browsers, including so-called touch events, Microsoft in IE10’s pointer events mechanism is implemented. Although the W3C as a candidate recommendation status in response to touch events if the organisation is to Microsoft’s pointer events as a final standard has started to develop, partly because this also works with mouse – and stylusinput. Microsoft writes in his blogposting adjustments for pointer events is relatively easy, although a search – and-replace operation in the source code will not suffice.
The posting from Microsoft shows that the company the last few years with the introduction of Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10, a turnaround has created and chosen for the embrace of open web standards. The software giant had a long time strong criticism from web developers because the developers with the dominant position of Internet Explorer 6 for many years, forced to non-standard code to write. In the meantime, the latest IE browsers compatible with the major W3C standards and Microsoft is working actively to support and develop of new web standards.