EXPLORER9
“The only native
experience of HTML5 on the Web today is on Windows 7 with Internet
Explorer 9,” Hachamovitch said. “With Internet Explorer 9, websites can
take advantage of the power of modern hardware and a modern operating
system and deliver experiences that were not possible a year ago.
Internet Explorer 10 will push the boundaries of what developers can do
on the Web even further.” Advantage With HTML5
Consumers
and developers face an important technology challenge today: With the
majority of consumers using multiple devices, the performance and rich
experience of native applications demand the time and investment of
re-writing applications from device to device. As a result, technology
standards such as HTML5, which deliver superior performance through
Web-connected devices, play an increasingly important role. This
dynamic creates a clear catalyst for developers to gravitate toward
technologies that not only comply with standards, but also exploit the
power of the local device to offer rich, immersive, next-generation Web
experiences.
Internet Explorer 9 is the only
browser with hardware-accelerated HTML5 spanning all graphics, text,
audio and video. It was the first browser to introduce innovations,
such as hardware acceleration, built on deep HTML5 support, to enable
fast and immersive Web experiences. The first platform preview of
Internet Explorer 10 builds on these innovations and includes support
for additional standards, such as CSS3 Gradients on background images
and CSS3 Flexible Box Layout.
Internet
Explorer is designed to bring sites to the forefront, enabling a more
immersive, more beautiful Web experience. At MIX11, Microsoft demoed
sites and applications from many leading companies, including
foursquare, Namco, and Sparkart Group Inc.’s new site for Bon Jovi, to
demonstrate how companies are using Internet Explorer to create richer
experiences.
“We love foursquare playground
because it combines our API with interesting new technologies like
HTML5 and Internet Explorer 9 to extend foursquare to the desktop and
deliver beautiful visualizations of where users are gathering,” said
Holger Luedorf, vice president of Mobile and Partnerships for
foursquare. “We are excited to unveil new features in the experience,
including an ‘add venue’ function and photo sharing.”
Examples of these rich demos can be seen at
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mix.
Interoperability With Standards
Microsoft
is leading the adoption of Web standards with its long-term commitment
to the HTML5 standards process and platform investments spanning
Internet Explorer, Windows Phone and Windows 7. Hachamovitch
highlighted projects from the Microsoft HTML5 Labs site (
http://www.html5labs.com), where the company provides prototypes of early specifications from standards bodies, such as the W3C.
Microsoft
also is focusing on standards and cloud development, helping developers
more easily scale their apps to multiple devices and platforms. In his
keynote, Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, .NET Developer
Platform, discussed how the Windows Azure platform empowers developers
to use their existing skills to build, host and scale Web applications
in the cloud.
Microsoft announced the
commercial availability of new Windows Azure capabilities, including
services that accelerate application performance and enable secure and
open access to Web applications through popular identity providers,
including Microsoft, Facebook and Google. A new community technology
preview of traffic management capability for Windows Azure is also
available today, enabling developers to more easily balance application
performance across multiple geographies. Guthrie also announced a
preview of Windows Azure content delivery network for media-streaming
capabilities, available at the end of June. More information about
these updates is available at
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure.
In
addition to its commitment to HTML5, Web standards and cloud
interoperability, Microsoft discussed its commitment to sponsoring open
source projects, such as the Orchard project, a free CMS project in the
Outercurve Foundation’s ASP.NET Open Source Gallery. Orchard 1.1 is
available today, along with new Amazon.com Inc., UserVoice Inc. and
DISQUS modules that contribute to the growing number of
community-authored extensions for Orchard. Microsoft also announced an
refresh of ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update, which enables Web developers to
innovate quickly and easily via new HTML 5 markup support, Entity
Framework 4.1 with Entity Code First now built in for easier database
Web solution development, and expanded NuGet capabilities for finding
and installing community components
MIX
In
its sixth year, MIX was created to foster a sustained conversation
between Microsoft and Web designers and developers. This year’s event
offers two days of keynotes streamed live and approximately 130
sessions available for download, all at
http://live.visitmix.com. Press materials are available at
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mix.
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