IE10: Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) vs. Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango)

IE10: Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) vs. Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango)A side by side comparison with lots and lots of Internet Explorer 10 Mobile improvements.

With the upcoming Windows 8 release that features IE 10, we take a look at the web standards support (HTML5) and compare it against both Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.5.

Sure, we could just talk about the numbers: 300 vs. 138 but there is a better way.

IE10: Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) vs. Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango)
IE10: Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) vs. Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango)
IE10: Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) vs. Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango)
IE10: Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) vs. Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango)

And if you are not into the graphs, here is a text only version.

Windows Phone 8 IE10 (Changelog)

HTML5 tokenizer
HTML5 tree building
MathML in text/html
Subtitle support
input type=search
input type=tel
input type=url
input type=email
input type=range
input type=file
textarea
select
datalist
progress
Field validation
Association of controls and forms
Other attributes
CSS selectors
Events
Form validation
spellcheck attribute
Session history
Application Cache
Sandboxed iframe

Asyncronous script execution
Base64 encoding and decoding
Native binary data
XMLHttpRequest Level 2
WebSocket
FileReader API
IndexedDB
Page Visibility
window.requestAnimationFrame

Sure, things might change in the future as IE10 Mobile is not yet finished but this gives you a good idea of the overall WP8 improvements.

Stay tuned.

  • Phansopkarmuneeb

    Yeah IE10 is a big improvement.