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Internet Explorer 10
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseSeptember 4, 2012;12 years ago(2012-09-04)
Final release
10.0.56 (10.0.9200.22139) / December 13, 2016;7 years ago(2016-12-13)
EngineMSHTML6.0,Chakra
Operating systemWindows 7SP1
Windows Server 2008 R2SP1
PlatformIA-32,x64,andARM
Included withWindows 8andWindows Server 2012
PredecessorInternet Explorer 9(2011)
SuccessorInternet Explorer 11(2013)
Standard(s)HTML5,CSS3,H.264
TypeWeb browser
Feed aggregator[1]
LicenseProprietary,requiresa Windows license[2]
Websiteie.microsoft
Screenshot of the Internet Explorer 10 Desktop app

Internet Explorer 10(IE10) is the tenth, and by now, discontinued, version of theInternet Explorerweb browserand the successor toInternet Explorer 9,released by Microsoft on September 4, 2012. It does not support earlier versions.

IE10 expands onInternet Explorer 9functionality with regard toCSS3support,hardware acceleration,[3]andHTML5support. It is divided into two editions with differentuser interfaces:aMetroapp that does not supportplug-insand a traditional desktop application that retains plug-in support.[4]On64-bit computers,the Metro edition runs in 64-bit mode by default.[5]The desktop edition can be run in 64-bit mode by enabling Enhanced Protected Mode.[6]

Product life cycle

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On April 12, 2011, Microsoft released the first "IE10 Platform Preview".[7][8]The first preview release came four weeks after the final release of Internet Explorer 9.[9]IE10 reachedgeneral availabilityon September 4, 2012. A preview of IE10 was made available for download on November 5, 2012.[10]On November 13, 2012, Internet Explorer 10 and the Platform Update were made available for download to all users.[11][12]

Support for Internet Explorer 10 on most Windows versions ended on January 12, 2016, when Microsoft began requiring customers to use the latest version of Internet Explorer available for each Windows version.[13]On January 31, 2020, Microsoft released the final IE10 update[14][15]andWindows Embedded 8 Standard,[16]marking the end of IE10 support on all platforms.

History

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Internet Explorer 10 was first announced on April 12, 2011, at theMIX 11conference in Las Vegas.[17]In this conference, Microsoft showcased a demo version of Internet Explorer 10.[18]On the same day, a Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 10 was released on the Microsoft Internet Explorer Test Drive website.[3][19] Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 1 supports CSS3 grid layout, CSS3 flexible box layout, CSS3 multi-column layout, CSS3gradient,and full hardware acceleration.[20][21]

Reviewers' responses to the release of Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview were varied; however, they noted how soon (29 days) after the release of Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft began talking about the next version. While Don Reisinger ofeWeeklisted his requested features for the next version, Michael Muchmore ofPC Magazinetested Platform Preview 1's performance and HTML5 support with both Microsoft's and third parties' test suites. In his test, Platform Preview 1 performed better than Internet Explorer 9 but not always better than the competing web browsers.[22][23]

On September 13, 2011, Microsoft released the developer preview of Internet Explorer 10 to the general public (the first full browser incarnation).[24]Although Internet Explorer is the last major web browser amongMozilla Firefox,Google Chrome,Opera,andSafarito support spell checking, it is the first desktop browser on Windows to supportautocorrection.[25][26][27][28]

Internet Explorer 10 was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012. The latter reached general availability on September 4, 2012[29]while the former reached general availability on October 26, 2012. A preview of Internet Explorer 10 was released on November 13, 2012.[30][31]It is not compatible with previous versions of Windows.[32]

New features

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Adobe Flash integration

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Internet Explorer 10 includes a built-in Adobe Flash Player.[33]Microsoft and Adobe worked together to ensure that the version of Adobe Flash included with Internet Explorer 10 does not drain the battery or impact performance in negative ways.[33] In the "Metro" version of Internet Explorer, only some of the features of Adobe Flash will be included for battery life, performance and security purposes.[34]Some features that do not work well with touch have also been removed from the "Metro" version of Internet Explorer. However, originally, not all websites can use Adobe Flash in the "Metro" version of Internet Explorer as Microsoft and Adobe maintain a list of approved websites that are, reportedly, video content and some games.[34] In the desktop version of Internet Explorer 10, all of the features of Adobe Flash are available.[34]
On March 12, 2013, Microsoft changed this behavior from allowing only sites on a whitelist to display flash content, to allowing all sites to display flash content except those on a curated Compatibility View (CV) list (blacklist) maintained by Microsoft.[35]

User interface

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The desktop version of Internet Explorer 10 retains theuser interface(UI) ofInternet Explorer 9with minor refinements, such as removinggradients.TheMetroversion of Internet Explorer 10 includes a new UI, most of which is hidden so that the webpage being viewed takes up the entire screen.

The UI can be revealed by aright clickof themouseor by a swipe from the top or bottom edges of a touchscreen.[36]When the UI is shown, thetabsare listed on the top of the screen, with a small preview of the webpage on each tab. A button to add a new tab is placed in the top-right corner. At the bottom of the screen, theaddress barand navigational buttons are shown. Navigational buttons include the Back button (to navigate to the previous page), the Refresh button (to reload active page), the Pin button (which create a new shortcut tile for the active page on the Start screen), and a wrench-shaped icon, which opens the onlymenuof IE10. It contains options such as "View on Desktop", which opens the current webpage on the desktop version of Internet Explorer 10, and "Find on page", which can find a text string (a word, phrase or arbitrary set of letters) in the active page.[36]

Flip Ahead

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Internet Explorer 10 also introduces a new feature called Flip Ahead.[34]This works in both Metro and desktop versions of Internet Explorer 10. It allows users to move through articles that span multiple pages as well as search results and other web pages with a "next page" or similar button. This feature is turned off by default as a user's browsing history is sent to Microsoft in order to provide the feature.[33][34] According to the Windows SuperSite,[34]Microsoft has said that some sites may need to be updated to ensure it will work as intended.

Miscellaneous

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Internet Explorer 10 is the first web browser to support smoothCSStransitions of linear gradients.[37]


Release history

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Name New features
Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview Support for CSS3 multi-column layout, CSS3 grid layout, CSS3 flexible box layout, CSS3 gradients,ES5strict mode, and a newuser agentstring (see§User agent string).
Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2 Support for Positioned Floats, CSS stylesheet limit lifted, CSSOM Floating Point Value support, Improved hit testing APIs, Media Query Listeners, HTML5: Support for async attribute on script elements, HTML5Drag and Drop,HTML5 File API, HTML5Sandbox,HTML5Web Workers,and some Web Performance APIs.
Internet Explorer 10 Developer Preview Support for Windows 8, CSS 3D Transforms, CSS Text shadow, SVG Filter Effects, Spellchecking, Autocorrection, local storage with IndexedDB and the HTML5 Application Cache,Web Sockets,HTML5 History, andInPrivatetabs.
Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4 Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, File API Writer, JavaScript Typed Arrays (WebGL), CSS user select property, HTML5 Video Text Captioning, and Updated Quirks Mode.
Internet Explorer 10 Consumer Preview Cross-Origin Resource Sharing(CORS) for XMLHttpRequest, CSS-ms-user-selectproperty, CSS3font-feature-settingsproperty to access advancedOpenTypefeatures, Document setting to enable floating point values in CSS-OM, HTML5 BlobBuilder API and new APIs to save or open files, HTML5 track element for HTML5 video captions, Interoperable HTML5 Quirks mode, JavaScript Typed Arrays, Meta tag to alert user that site requires ActiveX add-ons available only in desktop IE10, removal of legacy graphics features from IE10 standards mode, changes to support latest HTML5 WebSocket API, and Web Worker thread pooling.[38]
Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview Removal of app switch button, newUIfor search results, integration of touch-friendlyAdobe Flash Player,Flip Ahead, "Do not track" -flag set by default,[39][40]removal of legacy DX filters from all of the document modes (can be re-enabled using the Internet Options dialog), and support for (CSS transitions, transforms, animations, gradients, and CSS Fonts’font-feature-settings property,as well as platformAPIssuch as theIndexed Database API(IndexedDB) andrequestAnimationFrame()) in their unprefixed forms, but still supports their prefixed forms.[41]
Internet Explorer 10 None.[42]Generally, there are no significant changes between arelease candidateandrelease to manufacturingexcept bug fixes.

Discontinued features

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Internet Explorer 10 no longer features or supports the following:[43]

Mobile version

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Main article:Internet Explorer Mobile

At the Windows Phone Developer Summit in June 2012,Joe BelfioreannouncedWindows Phone 8due towards the end of 2012, which will include a mobile version of Internet Explorer 10 that offers four times faster JavaScript performance and two times more support for HTML 5 features. It includes Microsoft SmartScreen and supports touch in HTML5 apps.[44]

User agent string

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Internet Explorer 10 has a newuser agentstring which has the following general format:[45]

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2;[platform token]Trident/6.0; Touch)

Depending on the system, different parts of this user string may change. The last token, "Touch", only appears on systems equipped with atouchscreen.The platform token may be any of the following:

Platform token
Value Condition
Nothing Absence of the platform token indicates that Internet Explorer is running on a 32-bit version of Windows
WOW64; Indicates that a 32-bit version of Internet Explorer is running on a 64-bit version of Windows
Win64; x64; Indicates that a 64-bit version of Internet Explorer is running on a 64-bit version of Windows
ARM; Indicates that Internet Explorer 10 is running onWindows RT

Notes

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A.^Refers to the Internet Explorer (engine) version, not the Platform Preview version[46]: First screenshot 
B.^Platform Preview version is 2 October 1000.16394[47]
C.^Platform Preview version is 2 October 1008.16421
D.^This version is only included as part ofWindows 8Developer Preview, and is a full version rather than a usual Platform Preview.[24]
E.^Platform Preview version is 2.10.0.8103.0. Does not replace Internet Explorer Developer Preview.[48]This Platform Preview is compatible only with Windows Developer Preview.

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