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Is anyone really THAT surprised, though? I feel like indie game developers who are using HTML5 techniques still mainly target modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, and Firefox). There might have been a hope of say "it will be awesome if everything starts to work on IE", but I highly doubt those developers were dying for IE. Plus, if you look at the majority target market for HTML5 gamers, those users will most likely be using modern browsers anyways.

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It's currently easier to get a HTML5 game working in IE10 than it is in Windows Safari, for what it's worth. But I think I agree with your premise that HTML5 game developers aren't really targeting Internet Explorer in general. People who care about users on IE seem to be sticking with Flash.

I don't really see the point of comparing IE10 (just released) to a browser that has a minuscule browser share and hasn't been actively developed or updated in something like 6 months.

You can compare a preview build of IE10 from 6 months ago with a Windows Safari nightly from today and IE10 will still win. I have.

I'm not sure how you're categorizing "modern browsers", but this is disappointing for any developers who hope to reach audiences on Windows RT or Windows Phone 8 without needing to make an app for those platforms.

As mentioned below in another comment reply I made, that was a poor usage of "modern browsers". I meant like Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Also, I agree that it's disappointing, but I also don't think it's necessarily a "deal breaker" for the features that IE10 is missing. However, that will depend on the style of HTML5 game that you are building.

I thought IE10 was a "modern browser"?

Not according to this: http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html. BUT, IE will start to auto update their browsers here sometime soon, and in my books that's what makes a browser modern right now.

The score for IE10 is 320. It's close to Safari 5.1, the previous version of Safari, which scores 319.

Of course, it's not as high as the current leader (Maxthon 3.4.5 at 457), but IE10's got a decent score, and is definitely a big improvement compared to IE9.

You are right, that was a poor usage of the phrase "modern browser", but I'm sure you know what I meant (Chrome, Safari, and Firefox).

It is. It's just one step behind, and that's one step too far for some people.

Or at last, it was supposed to be...

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