HTML5 Labs: add WebSockets and IndexedDB support in IE

HTML5 Labs is a new experimental platform for testing the implementation of individual HTML5 elements and related specifications. The project will publish prototypes of the implementation of certain web standards or their fragments, which, obviously, will be in demand in the future, but at the moment they are damp or unstable.

Currently, prototypes of WebSockets and IndexedDB implementations are available.

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According to the plan, an explicit separation of experimental implementations and the main browser will allow you to avoid the negative consequences of using functionality on real projects, which is subsequently canceled or changed in an incompatible way. Basic and stable elements of web standards will be included in the basic version of the browser, and additional functions requiring community run-in, expert research and final stabilization in the completed standard will be implemented in the form of such prototypes.

For more on the initiative, see the Dean Hachamovitch article on the IE team blog and the Jean Paoli article on the compatibility blog.

ps The implementations are damp (see limitations in release notes to each of the prototypes), but we will continue to work in this direction. Comments and suggestions on the implementation can be left in these records: about web sockets and about indexedDB .