Hi Everyone,

In this blog post, I’d like to share some of the changes regarding behaviors in Windows Internet Explorer 10. 

Behaviors is a great way to enhance a DOM Element’s capabilities.  However this technology, unique to Internet Explorer programming model, presents a big challenge for web developers wanting to develop web applications that can work on multiple browsers.  With the latest release of Windows Internet Explorer 10 continuing to embrace the web standards, all types of behaviors are considered legacy technologies and should be avoided if possible.  For compatibility reasons, all of these continue to run in document modes < 10 in the desktop version of IE10 running on Intel or compatible processors.

There are two types of behaviors:  script (HTCs) and binary.  Each can be instantiated in the following manners:

• Attached – instantiated via addBehavior() method or behavior’ CSS property
• Element – bound to an element via <? Import> and a namespace

Here is how they‘ve changed in IE10:

• Script-based HTCs are removed from IE10 Standards Mode in both Modern and the Desktop version.
• Binary behaviors are removed from all Document Modes of Modern IE.
• Attached binary behaviors will work in all Document Modes of Desktop IE.
• Element binary behaviors will work in Legacy (Document Mode < 10) Modes of Desktop IE.

The above changes are summarized in the following table:

This blog has been provided to you by Bac Hoang, IE Escalation Engineer.