Internet Explorer 10

With Internet Explorer 10, Microsoft wants to develop further support for HTML 5 and CSS 3 and allow to make immersive apps.

A trial version is already available.

CSS3 Gradients and Flexbox

The shadows are now supported to create widgets similar to the native components of mobile phone systems.

3D transforms and transitions are added too.

Inspired by the Mozilla XUL interface language, flexible layout allowing dynamically display of content depending on the size of the screen, from that of the desktop to mobile one.

Float positionned inside the page and not only at left or at right.

HTML 5 native

To speed up the browser and provide access to Windows functions, Microsoft has removed all the intermediate layers between applications in IE 10, and the base system, providing direct access to the functions thereof.
A Web application works as a Windows application.
Critics say that the term is rather superficial, all the current browser using material acceleration having similar capacities.

Internet Explorer is also a component of Windows 8 for immersive applications.

New HTML 5 features supported:

Definition of immersive application

Immersion is a term of virtual reality for the consciousness of the subject when he feels like a real environment.
Implemented in applications, it is the quality of realism and interactivity that frees the user from the constraints associated with the interface to make him act naturally with the application.

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