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Over the past few years, Microsoft has done a lot of work on Internet Explorer, bringing it pretty much to the same level as other browsers. And not just on the desktop: on Windows Phone, the browser works surprisingly well Or at least that's the theory. At the moment of truth, most of the pages you visit from the browser are very basic, as if you had a basic mobile.
However, the problem is not so much Microsoft's anymore. Internet Explorer is perfectly capable of displaying almost all pages with advanced features. The problem is the stigma of Internet Explorer, so Redmond has solved it by making it behave like other browsers.
According to comments on the official IE blog, they have made some changes to the browser for the Windows Phone 8.1 update. The first: change the identification that is sent to the pages so that on the one hand they do not show the desktop version, and on the other hand they send the same code as for iOS and Android instead of very basic mobile versions.
"Once IE receives the same code as other browsers, it translates certain APIs that have the old WebKit engine prefix. For example, when only Chrome and Safari supported animations, web developers had to write -webkit-animation to get them to work. The problem is that these features are already supported by all browsers, but with the name animation , without a prefix. Internet Explorer is in charge of looking for those parts of the code that have not been updated to change those that can and that the pages work without problems."
In some cases, the Microsoft team has added support for features that are not standard or have a successor that works better, but are used by many web pages.
Of course, there have been bugs fixed and the behavior of some elements has been adapted so that they work like in other mobile browsers. But in general, the changes that Microsoft has prepared for Internet Explorer in Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 consist of impersonating other browsers and adapting to the fact that many pages ignore you totally
Personally, I think it&39;s a good initiative from Microsoft, much better than standing up and saying We support the standard, it&39;s the developers&39; fault. Together with initiatives like modern.IE, they show that Redmond has changed a lot since the days of IE 6"
Via | IEBlog
