Under the name of ‘modern.ie, ” Microsoft has a website with tools to enable developers to their sites to check for errors and security vulnerabilities. It also gives the company suggestions for sites to optimize for Windows 8 users.
Modern.ie checks with the scanner, a web page on possible errors in the css 3 and html5 code. It also offers suggestions on if there is outdated frameworks, such as jquery, and various library files are detected. Furthermore, any suggestions for sites to optimize for Windows 8 users, such as adding css code for touchscreen-support and meta-tags to a shortcut in the Start screen can show. Any security issues that the scanner detects, get a fairly vague description. According to Microsoft, is here due to privacy and security reasons, it is consciously chosen.
In addition to the scanner, Microsoft offers the possibility to use the service, BrowserStack sites to test in some older browsers. BrowserStack is three months prior to the purse to be pulled. Also, BrowserStack add-ons for Firefox and Chrome available, while with a number of virtualization-images of older IE versions to test.
Microsoft is trying the last few weeks the image of his ‘huisbrowser” Internet Explorer to Polish. For example, the video from which the generation of the nineties tried to speak. Therein communicating with the software giant that he ‘has grown up’. It refers to Microsoft, particularly on the better adherence to open web standards by the browser, IE10 is the latest version