Category: Web Developing
Redesigned IE F12 Developer Tools Interface Is Here
Some time ago, we reported that Microsoft was looking for a various user feedback, specially related to the user interface. Well, after collecting and listening the community, the software giant has revealed a newly redesigned F12 developer tools for Internet Explorer.
The main focus of a new design was to optimize the vertical real estate and eliminate the confusion, they claim that for this very reason tools icons were also removed and replaced with text.
And this is how it looks like:
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Internet Explorer: Microsoft Moves Away From MSDN
Say hello to the Stack Overflow.
Now here’s a pretty interesting and unexpected decision from the Microsoft itself. In an effort to really please and understand web developers (as well as move everything into one place), the software giant has announced a new migration initiative, which means that from now on, all discussions related to IE development will be moved from MSDN forums to Stack Overflow.
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Microsoft Updates IE Platform Roadmap
Will bring few new features for web developers.
If you’ve been following status.modern.ie then this won’t exactly be new for you, otherwise, take note.
According to the recent change, the software giant has started working on three new features:
– Responsive Images (image srcset), which will take the advantage of the high resolution screens;
– New input controls for picking dates (all using HTML5 standards): day, week and month;
– A support for MAIN element, which is used to identify the main content of your app or document.
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Microsoft Wants Your Feedback On F12 Developer Tools
If you are a web developer, listen up as Microsoft is currently looking for the feedback on their new Internet Explorer Developer Tools.
So far, the team has come up with three different layout ideas and this is where your comments and suggestions come into the picture.
Take a look:
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BrowserStack Gets Compromised
Tough luck.
BrowserStack, a paid service with over 25,000 customers (including eBay, Adobe and other giants) that allows you to test your web sites on more than 700 different web browser configurations, has been compromised.
The customers has since received the following email:
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Microsoft Announces RemoteIE
And it’s pretty useless.
Recently, Microsoft has announced a new and free tool that aims to help web developers to test their code on Internet Explorer, especially those running Mac OS X, iOS or Android.
While it might sound cool on the first sight, there is one problem: it allows you to test the latest version of Internet Explorer on the Windows 10 Technical Preview, which means that pretty much no one is using this browser right now and it’s useless since developers need access to older builds like IE8 and IE9.
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Mozilla To Release A Browser For The Web Developers (Video)
Posts a teaser.
In a pretty stale web browsers world where today’s innovations seem to be tied to the social integration, it looks like Mozilla is (almost) ready to unveil a web browser created specifically for web developers.
While the open source organization is short on details, they did reveal few things: the new web browser is said to include tools like WebIDE and Firefox Tools Adapter, and lastly, it’s coming in 7 days, on November 10th, 2014. Check the teaser below.
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HTML5 Specs Finalized, HTML 5.1 & HTML 5.2 Already In Development
15 years since the last update.
A very long time ago (December 24th, 1999), the World Wide Web Consortium has published the finalized specs of HTML 4.01 (HTML 4 has been standardised in 1997). Now, 15 years later, the very same organization has finally W3C Recommendation for HTML5, which means it’s a final version.
I’m sure you’re already aware about a lot of neat HTML5 syntactic features, such as: audio, video and canvas elements, and that’s just scratching the surface.
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Microsoft Updates Its IE Roadmap Page
Shows more features in development.
With the recent goal to be more transparent when it comes to the Internet Explorer development, the software giant has announced a new set of updates and here’s what they are currently working on:
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Internet Explorer: Try Improved F12 Developer Tools
Becomes even more awesome.
With the Windows 8.1 August update (which was supposed to be a much bigger deal and bring the new (aka old school) start menu, the software giant has also included the new F12 developer tools for Internet Explorer 11.
What’s new? Surprisingly, a lot, you can expect new icons and notifications, various console changes (with accurate autocomplete and more), improved in DOM explorer (now there’s a color picker, color wheel, eye dropper, etc.), debugger changes and so much more.
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