What's New in Internet Explorer 9 (C++)
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This page lists the new API added in Internet Explorer 9 for C++ developers.
Functions
Determines whether Tracking Protection is enabled.
Directs Internet Explorer to download a file.
Interfaces
Specifies an object that represents a color gradient on a CanvasRenderingContext2D object.
Provides an object that can represent a rectangle of pixels of a given width and height.
Provides a pattern for the fill style by using an image or portion of an image.
Provides indexed access to the color components of each pixel of image data.
Provides an interface to the ICanvasPixelArrayData::GetBufferPointer method, which allows native code (such as an ActiveX control, Browser Help Object (BHO), or WebBrowser control (WebOC) host) access to the CanvasPixelArray
Provides an object that represents a two-dimensional surface that has an origin (0,0) at the upper-left corner, with x-coordinates increasing as you move right and y-coordinates increasing as you move down.
Defines an object that the ICanvasRenderingContext2D::measureText method returns.
Exposes a mechanism whereby the user can create an event object.
Defines a range interface that is implemented on the document object.
Provides a way to traverse a filtered list of nodes either in a flat or tree-structured representation.
Provides a way to warn the user before a document is unloaded.
Provides contextual information that is associated with text-composition events.
Provides properties and methods for user-defined custom events.
Provides properties that describe the document type of a document object.
Provides properties and methods for drag-and-drop events.
Provides properties and methods that are common to all Document Object Model (DOM) events.
Describes errors thrown by DOM operations.
Provides properties and methods for events that are caused by changes in element focus.
Provides properties and methods for keystroke events.
Provides properties and methods for cross-document messaging (XDM) events.
Provides properties and methods for mouse pointer events.
Provides properties and methods for mouse wheel movement.
Provides properties and methods for changes to the DOM structure.
Provides an object that can be used to traverse filtered lists of nodes or elements by using a flat, logical representation of the document structure. The IDOMNodeIterator is dynamic, reflecting the state of the document as it is edited or changed.
Interface that converts strings of serialized XML source code into a DOM trees.
Instantiates the DOMParser object.
Provides properties that represent a processing instruction for XML documents.
Provides event properties that are specific to pinned site events.
Provides properties and methods for DOM storage events.
Provides specific contextual information that is associated with text events.
Provides an object that can be used to traverse a filtered hierarchy of nodes or elements in a document. This interface is ideal for navigating a representation of the document's tree structure. The IDOMTreeWalker is dynamic and reflects the state of the document as it is edited or changed.
Provides properties and methods that are common to UIevents.
Implements methods and properties that are unique to wheel rotation events.
Provides a method that converts nodes in a DOM tree to an XML string.
Instantiates the IDOMXmlSerializer object.
Provides properties for traversing elements in a document. Conceptually, using this property is the same as using a NodeIterator that filters out everthing except for elements. Because traversing elements is the most common use case for developers, this property offers a simpler interface API.
Describes errors thrown by event operations.
Implements methods to register, unregister, and dispatch DOM events.
This interface provides methods that allow access to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) documents displayed in a webpage.
Provides programmatic access to items in an element's attribute collection. This interface extends the IHTMLAttributeCollection3 interface.
Specifies the sound or audio content, such as music or effects, to be played in a webpage.
This interface is used to create new instances of the IHTMLAudioElement.
This interface extends the IHTMLBodyElement3 interface.
Contains methods and properties that you can use to render button elements in a webpage. This interface extends the IHTMLButtonElement interface.
Provides an interface to implement methods and properties for drawing, rendering, and manipulating images and graphics on a webpage.
Extends the IHTMLCommentElement2 interface.
Represents an @import rule within a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) style sheet. The @import rule is used to import style rules from other style sheets.
This interface provides the abstraction of an ordered collection of media. An empty list is the same as a list that contains the medium
"all". The items in the media list are accessible via an integral index, starting from 0.This interface represents an @media rule in a CSS style sheet. An @media rule can be used to delimit style rules for specific media types.
This interface represents an @namespace rule.
This interface is the abstract base interface for any type of CSS statement (including both rule sets and at-rules). Internet Explorer preserves all rules specified in a CSS style sheet, even if the rule is not recognized by the parser.
Represents a single CSS declaration block.
Provides methods and properties for working with documents. This interface extends the IHTMLDocument6 interface.
Provides programmatic access to the properties and methods that are common to all element objects. This interface extends the IHTMLDOMAttribute2 interface.
Extends the IHTMLDOMChildrenCollection.
Provides a method for performing operations that are independent of a particular instance of the DOM. This interface extends the IHTMLDOMImplementation interface.
Provides methods to access and modify nodes in the DOM and extends the IHTMLDOMNode2 interface.
IHTMLDOMRange specifies a general way to select content between a two boundary points.
Provides methods to access the data in a text node of a document; extends the IHTMLDOMTextNode2 interface.
Provides access to properties and methods that are common to all element objects. This interface extends the IHTMLElement5 interface.
Provides methods to rules that are applied to an element.
Extends IHTMLEventObj5 with pinned site events.
This interface extends the IHTMLFrameSetElement2 interface.
This interface extends the IHTMLImgElement3 interface.
Specifies additional properties to use when you are selecting text.
Extends the IHTMLLinkElement4 interface.
Provides methods and properties to play audio or video content to the user.
Describes the last error that occured with an IHTMLMediaElement operation.
This interface extends the IHTMLObjectElement, IHTMLObjectElement2, IHTMLObjectElement3, and IHTMLObjectElement4 interfaces.
This interface extends the IHTMLOptionElement3 interface.
The IHTMLPerformance interface provides properties that help identify and troubleshoot performance problems with a webpage.
The IHTMLPerformanceNavigation interface provides properties that describe the user navigation and server actions required to load the document into the window object.
Provides properties for accessing the timestamps that are associated with built-in performance marks.
This interface provides the ability to programmatically access and manipulate the properties of rectangle elements. This interface extends the IHTMLRect interface.
Extends the IHTMLScreen3 interface.
This interface extends the IHTMLScriptElement, IHTMLScriptElement2, and IHTMLScriptElement3 interfaces.
Extends the IHTMLSelectElement5 interface.
Represents the active selection, which is typically a highlighted block of text or other elements in the document. The active selection can be used to complete an action issued by a user or a script.
Provides a way for webpage authors to specify multiple alternative media resources for IHTMLMediaElement.
This interface extends the IHTMLStorage interface.
This interface extends IHTMLStyleElement for Internet Explorer 9. It provides a mechanism by which a style sheet can be retrieved from the node that is responsible for linking it into a document.
Provides an interface for style objects.
Represents an @font-face rule in a CSS style sheet.
Determines the media type that is supported by the object that displays a webpage.
This interface extends the IHTMLStyleSheet, IHTMLStyleSheet2, and IHTMLStyleSheet3 interfaces for Internet Explorer 9.
Represents a single rule set in a CSS style sheet.
This interface provides additional access to the methods that are returned when you access the styleSheet object.
Provides methods to get the specificity of a rule that is applied to an element.
IHTMLStyleSheetRulesAppliedCollection
Provides access to a collection of IHTMLStyleSheetRulesAppliedCollection objects.
IHTMLStyleSheetRulesCollection2
Provides the abstraction of an ordered collection of CSS rules.
Provides additional access to the methods that are returned when you access the styleSheet collection object.
Provides access to table and table cell data. This interface extends the IHTMLTable3 interface.
Provides access to additional properties for table cells. This interface extends the IHTMLTableCell2 interface.
Provides access to table column properties. This interface extends the IHTMLTableCol2 interface.
Provides access to additional table row properties and methods. This interface extends the IHTMLTableRow3 interface.
Provides access to additional properties and methods for table sections. This interface extends the IHTMLTableSection3 interface.
Specifies additional properties for when you select text.
Implements a collection of time ranges that have been buffered or played.
Specifies the video content to be played in a webpage.
Provides properties that describe the window displaying a webpage. This interface extends the IHTMLWindow6 interface.
This interface provides a property that indicates whether tracking protection is enabled.
Implements a property that, if supported, returns the geographic location of the device running Internet Explorer.
Describes errors thrown by range operations.
Provides access to the CSS style rules that are applied to an element.
Provides access to a collection of rules that have been applied to an element.
Extends IShellUIHelper3 with methods that support pinned sites.
Provides methods to implement chains of presentation buffers.
Provides the properties to the a element.
Corresponds to the svgAngleType basic data type.
Provides SVGAngle properties and attributes that you can animate.
Provides Boolean attributes that you can animate.
Provides attributes whose values are constants from a specified enumeration and that you can animate.
Provides integer attributes that you can animate.
Provides SVGLength attributes that you can animate.
Provides SVGLengthList attributes that you can animate.
Provides SVGNumber attributes that you can animate.
Provides SVGNumberList attributes that you can animate.
Enables you to animate elements that have an ISVGMatrix::d attribute, which holds SVG path data.
Supports elements that have an ISVGAnimatedPoints::points attribute that you can animate.
ISVGAnimatedPreserveAspectRatio
Provides SVGPreserveAspectRatio attributes that you can animate.
Provides SVGRect attributes that you can animate.
Provides string attributes that you can animate.
Provides attributes that specify a set of transformations, such as the ISVGTransformable::transform attribute, that you can animate.
Provides the properties for the circle element.
Provides attributes of the SVGClipPathElement element.
Provides the properties for the defs element.
Provides the properties for the desc element.
Represents an SVG document.
Defines the base interface for all SVG DOM interfaces that correspond directly to elements in the SVG language.
Represents a single node in the instance tree of SVGElementInstance objects.
Represents an ordered collection of SVGElementInstance objects.
Provides the properties for the ellipse element.
Provides information about an exception that is raised when an SVG operation cannot be performed.
Defines a property that determines how to render documents or graphic elements that reference external resources. The ISVGExternalResourcesRequired interface applies to all elements where the element or one of its descendants can reference an external resource.
Defines DOM attributes that apply to elements with viewBox and preserveAspectRatio attribute values.
Corresponds to SVGSVGElement, which groups related graphical elements.
Defines a base interface that the SVGLinearGradientElement and SVGRadialGradientElement objects use.
Corresponds to the SVG image element. The image element renders supported imaging formats into a given rectangle within the current user coordinate system. Supported formats include PNG, JPEG, and files with a MIME type of
"image/svg+xml".Defines an interface that applies to all elements that have the standard
xml:langandxml:spaceXML attributes.Defines the length data type.
Defines a list of SVGLength objects.
Defines the attributes that are required to apply linear gradients to SVG elements. This interface corresponds to the SVGLinearGradientElement element.
Defines the attributes that are required for drawing line segments that start at one point and end at another point. This interface corresponds to the SVG SVGLineElement.
Note Because line elements are single lines and thus are geometrically one-dimensional, they have no interior and the
fillproperty does not apply.Defines attributes and operations that are used by the elements that have a transform attribute and by the elements that can have a bounding box in current user space.
Provides the properties for the marker element.
Provides properties for the mask element.
Provides properties for the SVGMatrix element.
This interface corresponds to the metadata element.
Defines attributes for the number basic type.
Defines a list of SVGNumber objects.
The ISVGNumberList interface has the same attributes and methods as other SVGxxxList interfaces. You should consider using a single base class to implement the various SVGxxxList interfaces.
You can designate an ISVGNumberList object as read-only so that any attempts to modify the object cause an exception to be thrown.
Represents the values of the
fillandstrokeproperties. The ISVGPaint interface corresponds to the paint basic type.Note The ISVGPaint interface is deprecated, and it might be dropped from future versions of the SVG specification.
Corresponds to the path element.
Defines a base interface that correspoinds to a single command that has a path data specification.
Corresponds to an absolute arcto (A) path data command.
Corresponds to a relative arcto (a) path data command.
Returns a stand-alone, parentless SVGPathSegClosePath object.
Corresponds to an absolute cubic Bézier curveto (C) path data command.
Corresponds to a relative cubic B
ISVGPathSegCurvetoCubicSmoothAbs
Corresponds to an absolute smooth cubic curveto (S) path data command.
ISVGPathSegCurvetoCubicSmoothRel
Corresponds to a relative smooth cubic curveto (s) path data command.
ISVGPathSegCurvetoQuadraticAbs
Corresponds to an absolute smooth Bézier curveto (Q) path data command.
ISVGPathSegCurvetoQuadraticRel
Corresponds to a relative quadratic B
ISVGPathSegCurvetoQuadraticSmoothAbs
Corresponds to an absolute smooth quadratic curveto (T) path data command.
ISVGPathSegCurvetoQuadraticSmoothRel
Corresponds to a relative smooth quadratic curveto (t) path data command.
Corresponds to an absolute lineto (L) path data command.
ISVGPathSegLinetoHorizontalAbs
Corresponds to an absolute horizontal lineto (H) path data command.
ISVGPathSegLinetoHorizontalRel
Corresponds to a relative horizontal lineto (h) path data command.
Provides properties for a relative lineto (l) path data command.
Provides properties for an absolute vertical lineto (V) path data command.
Provides properties for a relative vertical lineto (v) path data command.
Defines a list of SVGPathSeg objects.
Provides properties for an absolute moveto (M) path data command.
Provides properties for a relative moveto (m) path data command.
Provides properties for the pattern element.
Reprsents an (x, y) coordinate pair that represents a point on the screen.
Provides properties and methods for a list of SVGPoint objects.
Defines the polygon element.
Defines the polyline element.
Provides properties for the preserveAspectRatio attribute, which is available for some SVG elements.
Provides properties for the radialGradient element.
Provides properties for a rectangle.
Provides properties for the rect element.
Provides properties for the script element.
Provides the properties for the stop element.
Represents a list of strings.
Represents an object that you can style.
Provides the properties for the style element.
Provides the properties of the SVG root element.
Provides the properties for the switch element.
Provides the properties of the symbol element.
Describes characteristics of elements that have the requiredFeatures, requiredExtensions, and systemLanguage attributes.
Provides attributes for text-related interfaces.
Corresponds to the text element.
Corresponds to the textPath element.
Provides attributes for text-related interfaces.
Corresponds to the title element.
Defines a component transformation.
Provides a property to get the value of a ISVGTransformable::transform attribute.
Provides method for maintaining an ordered list of transforms.
Corresponds to the tspan element.
Provides a property that gives access to the href attribute of an element.
Provides properties that allow you to read the attributes of a use element.
Provides a property that gives access to the ISVGViewElement::viewTarget attribute of a view element.
Provides properties that enable you to specify how a document is viewed based on certain parameters (SVG view specification).
Provides a property that gives you access to the ISVGZoomAndPan::zoomAndPan attribute of an element.
Provides properties that zoom event handlers can use.
Provides an interface that provides a mechanism for the host to notify the control when a frame has started rendering.
Provides an interface for ISurfacePresenter-aware ActiveX controls that allow the contol to syncronize presentation with the host.
Provides an interface to the OLE swap chain to enable ActiveX controls to use hardware acceleration to render by using the ISurfacePresenter interface.
Allows an ActiveX control to specify a bitmap to be sent to the printer at print time. If implemented, when Internet Explorer 9 prints a page, the interface will be called to get the bitmap.
Provides properties that describe geographic coordinates and other aspects of a geographic location, generally the location of the device running Internet Explorer.
Provides methods for obtaining the geographical location of the device running Internet Explorer.
Provides properties that describe geographic location data returned by the IWebGeolocation::getCurrentPosition function and the IWebGeolocation::watchPosition function.
Provides properties that describe error conditions that occur while trying to retrieve the geographic location of the device running Internet Explorer using the geolocation object.
Provides access to Temporary Internet Files (TIF) folder files (Windows CE only).
Enumerations/Structures
This topic lists the named keys that you can specify in the KeyboardEvent.key attribute in Internet Explorer 9. The list is sorted alphabetically by name.
Note The keycodes for 'NumPad0' through 'NumPad9' are not part of this set. Use the location attribute of the event to know if a key originated from the numeric keypad.
Defines the SVG angle types.
Specifies if an element can acquire keyboard focus (that is, receive keyboard events) and be a target for field-to-field navigation actions (such as when a user is pressing the Tab key).
svgLengthAdjustTypes Enumerated Type
Defines the unit types for the ISVGTextContentElement interface.
Defines the length unit types for SVGLength objects.
svgMarkerOrient Enumerated Type
Defines how the marker element is rotated.
svgMarkerOrientAttribute Enumerated Type
Defines how the marker element is rotated.
svgMarkerUnits Enumerated Type
Defines the marker unit types for the marker element.
svgPathSegType Enumerated Type
Defines the path segment types.
svgPreserveAspectMeetOrSliceType Enumerated Type
Defines the meet-or-slice types for the ISVGPreserveAspectRatio property.
svgPreserveAspectRatioAlignType Enumerated Type
Defines the alignment types for the ISVGPreserveAspectRatio property.
svgSpreadMethod Enumerated Type
Defines how the gradient element fills target regions.
svgTransformType Enumerated Type
Defines the transform types for the ISVGTransform interface.
Defines the unit types for the svgUnitTypes interface.
VIEW_OBJECT_ALPHA_MODE Enumerated Type
Specifies how the alpha value for a bitmap or render target should be treated in the buffer.
VIEW_OBJECT_COMPOSITION_MODE Enumerated Type
Specifies the mode that a surface presentation uses when rendering.
W3CException Error Codes Constants
This topic lists the HRESULT values that are translated into W3C exception codes by Internet Explorer 9. The list is sorted alphabetically by name.