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Imagining a More Engaging Web: 3rd Anniversary of IE Test Drive

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As developers build on the full capabilities of HTML5, touch, and hardware accelerated graphics, the web today is more engaging for consumers than many imagined. The experiences developers are building today simply were not possible just a few years ago.

Saturday marked the third anniversary of the IE Test Drive site. What started as a few examples of hardware-accelerated HTML5 to help developers imagine the potential of the web, has grown to a collection of over 140 feature-packed demos. Test Drive gives you a taste of what’s possible with HTML5 and modern browsers on modern hardware: HTML5, CSS3, ECMAScript 5, touch, GPU-powered graphics, blazing performance, audio/video, mobile, games, and more.

The support you’ve shown is humbling – over the last three years the Test Drive has received over 130 million page views! That’s more than a page per second for the last three years!We’ve had a lot of fun building the demos, and thought we’d take a look back at some of our favorite demos along the way.

IE Test Drive

The IE Test Drive Site contains over 140 demos!

Demos

Audio Explosion Touch, see, and hear IE10
CanvasPinball The perfect work time break
Chalkboard IE10 takes other browsers to school
FishBowl HTML5, CSS3, Video, Audio, Canvas, Fish
FishIE Started the fish revolution
Flying Images Our very first Test Drive!
Galactic Out of this world performance
Hamster Dance Revolution Get ready to become addicted
Love is in the Air We love you too
Minesweeper Speed that’ll make your browser explode
Mr. Potato Gun Actions speak louder than marketing videos
Psychedelic Browsing Our “highest” viewed demo after 2am
Speed Reading How fast can your browser speed read?
Touch Effects Touch your way to a faster experience
Tracking Protection Putting your privacy first

Looking Ahead

IE10 continues to deliver the best performance for real world Web sites on your Windows device, and the Test Drive is a great place to experience what’s possible yourself. Take the Test Drive for a spin today and let us know what you think!

We’re always excited and humbled by the amazing experiences developers are building on the web every day. Thank you for your continued feedback and for using IE10.

— Jon Aneja, Program Manager, Internet Explorer

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  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2013
    Just Bring IE6 Back , it was great .

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2013
    Could you update your score on the W3C HTML5 tests ? (11000+ tests)

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2013
    need to play the games

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2013
    > Please "modernize" F12 developer tools and source viewer (clickable URLs for CSS, JS and images). That should read: take a GOOD, LONG, HARD look at Firebug (surely MS employees know it) and completely copy it. ALL OF IT. Firebug is by far one of the best debugging tools, neck-a-neck with Chrome's inspector. Opera's Dragonfly is a mess but still provides most of the functionality that may be expected. MSIE's F12-tools are a joke. I don't even take it seriously as developer tools. Also, emulating old IE versions is not quite right. Not only visually not quite right, but also functionally. In many cases a "native" IE is much better than emulation. It's a good function to have, but it causes developers to rely on it (which is a bad thing). I get the feeling MS never realized that. And we NEED to test on old IE, because IE9 doesn't run on Windows XP, IE10 doesn't run on Vista, IE7 and IE8 don't run on Windows 7, and neither version can run side-by-side on any system, let alone true portable versions (hey, MS, there's a tip!)

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2013
    IE10 will become IE10 when Windows 7 become Windows XP. Using a browser that updates continually is the only way to go.

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2013
    I'm still getting myself to be used in IE10.

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2013
    Tracking Protection lists are not updating automatically in IE10 (windows 7 & 8).

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2013
    Stop back patting you have a major bug! Windows 7 Bug keeps changing the theme back to basic. Think its a bug with the direct Bios control? PC DEll Opteplex 990, Intel I Core 7 with 12Gb Ram with two ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics cards, 4 screens Windows Rating 5.1

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2013
    ... "browser that updates continually" ... which IE10 offers (checkout Alt+X+A in IE10), hence proved IE10 == IE10.

  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2013
    +1 for copy Firebug to fix the IE Dev Tools. IE's are a joke in comparison and so frustrating to use.

  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2013
    IE11 preloads pages in the background. :D