[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]
Today, users can choose from a variety of modern web browsers, including Windows Internet Explorer 10 Consumer Preview. In order to take advantage of the rich capabilities of most modern-day web browsers, while continuing to provide a satisfactory experience on older browsers, design your websites using features based on established standards, such as HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3), and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). This section highlights topics that help you prepare your site for web standards.
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Windows Internet Explorer 9 supports a variety of established and emerging standards, such as HTML5, CSS3, SVG, and others. For Internet Explorer 9 to display a webpage that uses features from one or more of these standards, the webpage must be displayed in IE9 Standards mode. | |
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This topic helps you learn how to use the F12 developer tools to research and identify a problem related to the document type of a webpage. | |
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This article shows how to use feature detection to verify support for standards-based featured and demonstrates different ways to detection features effectively. | |
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This article shows how to create effective strategies that allow webpages to display correctly when viewed with web browsers that do not support features defined by stable, widely supported standards. | |
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The Windows Internet Explorer Compatibility Cookbooks includes information about changes to features, identifies features that have been deprecated or removed, and describes general tools and guidance. New topics will be added as features are modified and as user feedback identifies areas where more information is needed. | |
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Learn more about developing accessible web applications, Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA), Microsoft Active Accessibility support in MSHTML, and accessible HTML elements. |
To prepare your site for web standards
Learn the basics:
- Learn HTML5 in Five Minutes
- Leave No Browser Behind: An HTML5 Adoption Strategy
- Browser and Feature Detection: Make Your Website Look Great Everywhere
As you create your website:
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If you're creating a new website or a new site design, be sure to be Creating Standards-Enabled Websites.
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Review the Internet Explorer Compatibility Cookbooks for help troubleshooting issues that you might encounter.
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Use the Internet Explorer 10 Samples and Tutorials and the Internet Explorer 9 Samples and Tutorials for additional information regarding standards-based features supported by Internet Explorer.
If you've already created a website:
- Use the Compat Inspector to identify potential issues with your existing design.
- Move to Standards-based Web Graphics.
- Be aware of Interoperable HTML5 Quirks Mode in Internet Explorer 10 and Metro style apps.
It's one thing to recognize that you need to create standards-enabled websites, but another to know how to do that, especially if you're used to older techniques and processes.
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Build date: 3/13/2012
