Over the last few years, there have been more changes in the browser space and the internet than ever before. For customers, the web has moved from being a utilitarian tool to a personalised experience. The increase in social networking usage, the proliferation of video on the web, and the increasing number of rich web and mobile applications connecting and engaging users online have made people come to expect more from their online experience. The rich graphics and interactive capabilities once exclusively associated with PC or mobile applications are increasingly expected from your... Read More

Internet Explorer 9 supports the Geolocation API, which enables a web application to access the current geographical location of the computer or device running the browser. The web application can then tailor the user experience according to the location, for instance, to display the user’s position on a map, or display up-to-date local information such as weather or news reports. -----> In This Section Topic Description Introduction to the Geolocation API This topic ... Read More

Build rich forms-over-data web applications faster with WCF RIA for JavaScript! ----> RIA/JSRIA/JS is a set of jQuery plugins that let you easily create rich user experiences around server data in your HTML/JavaScript application. By bridging the different tiers, RIA/JS helps you quickly build rich, data-centric applications. BigShelf Our BigShelf sample application uses RIA/JS to demon... Read More

Take advantage of HTML5 features to optimize websites for desktop & mobile browsers by Wallace B. McClure.----->HTML standards have been an important part of web development since the beginning of the web. HTML5, the most recent version of HTML, is a work in progress. After several attempts, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) formally began work on an update to the HTML specifications. (See "The Past, Present, and Future of HTML5" for detail about the history of HTML5.) This work first bore fruit with the publication of a public draft of... Read More

In this tutorial, you learn how to enable standards support, how to recognize and troubleshoot issues related to an incorrect document mode, and the importance of the document mode of a webpage.----->Windows Internet Explorer 9 supports a variety of established and emerging standards, such as HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), and others. For Internet Explorer 9 to display a webpage that uses features from one or more of these standards, the webpage must be displayed in IE9 Standards mode.In this tutorial, you learn how to enable st... Read More

Users expect their Web sites and apps to work well even when the network isn't available. With data increasingly stored in the cloud, developers want to enable fluid experiences that allow access to data when there is no connectivity; when devices are disconnected from the network or when they encounter dead spots in coverage.-----> In this post, we show how to create well-behaved offline sites and apps using the following HTML5 features: AppCache to store file resources locally and access them offline as URLs IndexedDB to store structured data locally s... Read More

Over the years the web has increasingly transformed from being just a repository of content to a marketplace of full-fledged functional applications. The suite of technologies that are bandied about these days under the “HTML5” banner have as a fundamental goal, the enablement of the building of this new breed of software.------> On the HTML5 Indexed DB API – Part 1 of n Tech... Read More