Internet Explorer 11 Developer Preview for Windows 7 is available with the improved performance and load times.
As promised Internet Explorer 11 Developer Preview for
Windows 7 is henceforth there!
Connectikpeople took a look inside the new version and we have nabbed some amazing
improvements and observed that, IE11 on Windows 7 aims to
offer like on Windows 8.1 Preview , the same improved performance, faster page load times, new standards
support for next generation
sites, and revised F12 developer tools.
sites, and revised F12 developer tools.
Microsoft announces that, they
have optimized the IE11 browsing engine for:
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Real-world sites to download
and display fast and be responsive and interactive.
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natively decode JPG images in
real-time on the GPU,
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Render text on the GPU.
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Implement the W3C Resource Priorities standard enabling developers to specify which parts of the page are
important and need to be loaded first.
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Supports HTML5 link
prefetching and pre-rendering,
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Supports the SPDY network protocol, the
precursor to the HTTP 2.0 specification, enabling some sites to be downloaded
faster.
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Internet Explorer 11 advances
the performance leadership of JavaScript engine, Chakra, while ensuring
compatibility, interoperability, and security.
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The JIT compiler now supports
more optimizations including polymorphic caching of properties and inclining of
function calls.
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Includes support for the
well-defined and commonly used features of the emerging ECMAScript 6 standard.
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IE11 supports features including let, const,
Map, Set, and WeakMap, as well as __proto__ for improved interoperability.
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supports the ECMAScript Internationalization
API (version 1.0), which enables culture aware
sorting, number formatting, date and time formatting to be performed
efficiently in JavaScript without having to round-trip to the server.
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According to Microsoft, on
Windows 7, IE11 is 4% faster than IE10.
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Internet Explorer 11 includes
support for WebGL, to create new kinds of advanced 2D and 3D experiences by
programming the computer’s Graphics processing Unit (GPU).
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IE11 provides interoperable
WebGL experiences that run on all devices, taking advantage of GPU acceleration
without compromising security and reliability.
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IE11 supports the WebGL ,
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IE11 scans for unsafe WebGL
content and implements a software-based renderer to complement the GPU.
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Internet Explorer 11 enables
high quality, power efficient HTML5 video without plugins.
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IE11 supports the latest standards for closed
captioning (TTML and SDP)—so all your video content can be as good as the professionals.
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IE11 supports the HTML Full Screen API as well, making it simple to fill the screen during video playback.
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IE can now download video data
without caching to disk, resulting in extended battery life when watching your
favorite video. And so on.
