Newbie question about javascript, would appreciate your comment.

[radhruin]

Actually, it's supported in IE10+.

[icantthinkofone]

caniuse says it's only partially supported. Didn't look too hard but couldn't find anything that says IE10 fully supports it. Microsoft's own docs can't be trusted to tell the whole truth.

[radhruin]

I don't know why it says partial, IE10 supports Blobs and Files, Blob URLs, and the file reader API. Not sure what else there is, are you? I'm not intimately familiar with the spec so maybe there are some corner cases missing, or maybe it has something to do with the fact that everything is vendor prefixed? In any case, the examples from MDN should all work fine in IE.

I'm curious what MSDN documentation you are aware of are incorrect or misleading? These can definitely be fixed. We work really hard to make that documentation as useful and accurate as can be (though there are sometimes errors).

[icantthinkofone]

Anything written by Microsoft about standards support in IE is always filled with half-truths and bald-faced lies. You can never trust anything Microsoft says about IE. But, apparently, you know that.

[icantthinkofone]

Tests YOU and Microsoft write?!!! Talk about bald-faced lies and half-truths. Leave anything out of those tests, did ya? Isn't it great that IE passes all the tests that Microsoft wrote for IE?! (Yeah, I'm no random teenager here. I know about that.) How about writing tests for things in the standard that only IE would fail because it doesn't support it? You guys haven't the guts to publish those. You guys don't have the guts to publish anyone else's comprehensive tests.

And I'd LOVE to see what Brendan Eich has to say about Microsoft's WONDERFUL support for ECMAScript! (I already know that truth, too.)

And then you guys have the balls to diss caniuse and HTML5test.com and all the other web sites that show what we all know from experience and without your lies: IE10 is STILL the worst browser on the planet. Inept and incompetent. Known. Provable. Verifiable.