On Wednesday Microsoft announced that it is developing at least four incipient features for the next relinquishment of Internet Explorer: Web Audio API, Media Capture and Streams, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2. The company verbalises this is not an exhaustive list of what to expect in the next version, but merely what it is currently confident that it will be able to distribute.
At Build 2014 conference last month,Microsoft launched Status.modern.ie, with a first look at features in development for the next version of Internet Explorer.After getting lots of feedback, and making amendments predicated on that feedback, the beta tag comes off Wednesday, and status.modern.ie is now launched.
A new set of features that are now in development for Internet Explorer, including:Web Audio API, Media Capture and Streams, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2.
HTTP/2 is a more expeditious protocol for conveying Web content. It is predicated on Google’s SPDY open networking protocol and is currently being standardized by the IETF.JavaScript is single-threaded, so you can only run one script at a time. Media Capture provides access to the user’s local audio and video input/output devices. With Promises, developers get a standardized way to make asynchronous calls in their code.
Improved search and filter, deep linking, better mobile support and performance are the changes they have made.
starting Wednesday, the entire status.modern.ie site is available on GitHub, under the Apache V2 license, for the many developers who have expressed an interest in contributing to the project.
We have rallied the team around a simple people-centric and pragmatic vision: The Web should just work for everyone – users, developers and businesses, says Sam George