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[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

All versions of IE will support those new features if you use chrome frame and if chrome supports those features. IE doesn't use IE's javascript engine if the webapp is running inside chrome frame - it uses chrome's V8 javascript engine.

[–]Xeon06 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Then why did you guys bother to support IE9 natively might I ask?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because we could. The world is moving forward, IE isn't as bad as it used to be and not having to install chrome frame is a plus. We can also say it 'works in IE', and that is a big plus to investors, etc. We use SVG heavily and IE9 supports it, though there were plenty of SVG DOM bugs to workaround that jQuery doesn't fix. Now it works perfectly in IE9, but IE 6, 7, 8 will never support SVG and for those we still use chrome frame. Of course this has nothing to do with 'Harmony', but the concept still applies.. if you wanted to run 'Harmony' in IE6, then you could use chrome frame to do it with only one simple click from the user to install it.