Some web developers might want to adapt their websites in order to welcome a change introduced by Internet Explorer 10.
At MIX11, Microsoft launched the first Platform Preview of IE10, and with it a new user-agent string for the browser version.
IE10 PP1 is specifically designed for web devs to get ready for the successor of Internet Explorer 9.
In some cases, especially for sites that rely on user-agent sniffing, developers will need to do some work in order to compensate for the “MSIE” token increase to “10.0”.
Of course, they could also switch to feature detection, and no additional US String work will be needed. Considering IE’s evolution in terms of modern web standards support, using feature detection is in fact the best way to go.
However, those that decide to stick with user-agent sniffing need to know that IE10’s UA String is: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0).
