One of the benefits of using IE on a Mac is that is makes operating multiple machines simpler. There are a lot of people using Internet Explorer at work and Mac’s browsers at home with no way to synchronize the Internet sessions and migrate their data easily. Secondly, Internet Explorer is still the most popular browser on the planet. Built to take advantage of the full power of Windows 8 and Windows RT, Internet Explorer 10 starts and loads sites almost instantly. It brings a fluid responsiveness to the web that feels totally new. Everything you want to do on the web is a swipe, tap, or click away. Perfect for touch. You get it all with the new Microsoft Edge—performance, compatibility, and speed to make browsing the web even more effortless. The new Microsoft Edge has built-in features designed to give you more control over your data and to protect your privacy online. The new Microsoft Edge comes complete.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 introduces powerful new features
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Editor: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 introduces powerful new features while retaining the superior performance and stability of Internet Explorer 5. The new Internet Explorer 5.5 features include:
An Enhanced HTML and components HTC model that uses element behaviors and Viewlink.
More control over user interface (UI) components, such as scroll bars, frames, and pop-up windows and menus.
Improved rendering and layout interfaces for binary behaviors.
More Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) styles, such as the first-letter and first-line Pseudo-elements.
Vertical text, made possible by using the writingMode property.
Enhanced HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions) support.
Print preview.
New HTML editing features.
An Enhanced HTML and components HTC model that uses element behaviors and Viewlink.
More control over user interface (UI) components, such as scroll bars, frames, and pop-up windows and menus.
Improved rendering and layout interfaces for binary behaviors.
More Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) styles, such as the first-letter and first-line Pseudo-elements.
Vertical text, made possible by using the writingMode property.
Enhanced HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions) support.
Print preview.
New HTML editing features.
Fixed some bugs.
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06.19.09
Free
English
84.12MB
Windows 2000, 98, Me, NT
Free
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Internet Explorer 10 Editor's Review
Browse the internet with ease with Microsoft's premier browser for Windows 8 and Windows RT.
Windows is perhaps the most widely used operating system in the history of computing. In the enterprise, you can literally accept no substitute. Most people find it a must have in the work place. With more and more applications for both home and work use shifting to mobile, online and touch-enabled applications, I'm glad that Windows' default web browser, Internet Explorer is keeping pace. Its perhaps one of the most widely used Windows-based web browsers around.
With the implementation of Windows 8 and Windows RT, Microsoft has taken a different tact to computing. They're embracing a new, clean and uncomplicated interface, and IE is following suite. IE gets out of the way when you browse. Its controls appear when you need them and vanish when you don’t, giving you full screen browsing, allowing you to see the web, not IE. When you need the controls, an easy flick of your finger can bring them back.
Speaking of fingers, all of IE's tabs are finger sized. You won't have to fumble with on screen elements that aren't tablet-centric or meant for interaction with a mouse. IE 10 is meant to be touched and interacted with. For example, IE automatically detects which page is next so it's easy to swipe from page to page with your finger. IE 10 is fast. The browser is quicker to start and to render pages than previous versions.
With security being such a hot topic, especially for Microsoft, IE 10 has security measures built in. It uses the leading malware protection, blocking up to 40% more malware than other, similar apps. If privacy is a major concern, IE 10 also supports Do Not Track as well as implementing SmartScreen filtering that helps keep your personal information hidden from the public.
App Pro’s: Fast, more secure that previous versions of IE, touch intuitive
App Con’s: Full screen mode may be difficult for some to get used to. New Metro version breaks previous Window paradigms
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Conclusion: The windowed version of IE 10 is decent. The MetroUI version that comes with Windows RT is a bit difficult for some to get used to. Unfortunately, the full screen or tablet version of IE 10 breaks Microsoft's previous Window paradigm, requiring most everyone to get used to a different way of viewing the web. While Microsoft may tout this as one of its newer features, not everyone is going to see it as a value add. The app's web rendering engine though is pretty awesome; and its performance may help you push aside its UI or presentation layer and just concentrate on the web as opposed to how it displays it.