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HTML5 is the next major update to the W3C HTML specification providing a standard structure for presenting content on the web. The W3C HTML5 specification adds new features like graphical support through SVG and Canvas, multimedia support like inlive video and audio, as well as new APIs to make it easier for developers to create rich, interactive web applications..
13th Apr, 2012 | Channel 5
by Jason McConnellBack in March at Internet Explorer's Badger Palooza event at the 2012 SXSW Interactive festival we unveiled an arcade machine running Internet Explorer 9 featuring an HTML5 game ...
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09th Apr, 2012 | Channel 5
It’s a good year to be a developer. With the release of Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 5 for Windows 8 Consumer Preview, it’s never been easier to build sites that work well in all modern browsers. The web continues to evolve and IE10 PP5 supports 33 new HTML5 & CSS3 site-ready web standards –more than 2.5x more than IE9. Most of these technologies are ...
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29th Mar, 2012 | Channel 5
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09th Feb, 2012 | Channel 5
As Web sites transition more and more into Web applications, working with files in meaningful ways is becoming increasingly important. Starting with Platform Preview 2, IE10 includes support for the File API, enabling developers to read and slice files on the client. Platform Preview 4 adds support for BlobBuilder, a way for developers to create new files. IE10 also has two new methods that allow the user to save blobs to their computer, enabling great end-to-end experiences when working with client-resident data.Over on the IE Test Drive, we have a fun piano demo showing off...
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09th Feb, 2012 | Channel 5
IndexedDB is a W3C Working Draft that enables JavaScript developers to store, search, and retrieve data on the user's local client, even when Internet connectivity is disabled. This blog post describes IDBExplorer, a tool we use internally to debug IndexedDB applications. IDBExplorer lets you view database schemas, object store content, and index details.Exploring the tool with an example IndexedDB AppTo illustrate, I created an application that tracks my New Year’s resolutions using IndexedDB. It stores and accesses my resolutions locally (on the system browsing the W...
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09th Feb, 2012 | Channel 5
Today’s HTML5 applications can provide awesome experiences thanks to the new CSS3 specifications. One of them is CSS3 Animations. It can help you building rich animations on HTML elements. This can provide interesting feedbacks to the users and enables fast & fluid UIs. As those new animations are most of time hardware accelerated by the GPU, they definitely raise up the quality bar of the new generation of HTML5 applications. According to the “CSS Animation Module Level 3” specification on the W3C site, CSS3 Animations introduces defined animations, which speci...
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09th Feb, 2012 | Channel 5
There is more choice than ever when it comes to browsers today. This is a fantastic thing and we believe that choice makes the web better for all of us.We build IE for customers who use Windows. IE9 is the browser designed to give Windows 7 customers the fastest, safest, and most private browsing experience – putting the focus on the thing that matters most – your favorite sites.If you haven’t had a look at IE recently and are ready for change, here are some reasons we think IE9 might be the browser for you.1. Browse without being browsed. If keeping your personal i...
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23rd Jan, 2012 | Channel 5
Document compatibility defines how a browser renders your website. The more specific you are at telling the browser what to expect, the better the experience for your users. When using web standards like HTML5, start by explicitly declaring the HTML5 document type:<!DOCTYPE html>This markup triggers standards mode in Internet Explorer 9 and 10. And it also works well in Chrome and Firefox. Four steps will get your site ready for many browsers and devices:Step 1: Validate that your site uses standards modeCheck whether or not your site is currently in standards mode: ...
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17th Jan, 2012 | Channel 5
We’re committed to making SkyDrive the best place to get access to your content from anywhere, collaborate on Office docs, and share photos. Mike recently talked about how we’re delivering access to your information seamlessly across devices – starting with Windows Phone.But a key part to delivering on our goals is having a great web experience that works across platforms. While over 100 million people have tried SkyDrive on the web, we know that there’s a lot more we can do to improve the experience. So starting today, we are launching a new version of the Sk...
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07th Nov, 2011 | Jennifer Marsman
I’ll cover the new semantic markup, canvas for drawing and animation, audio and video support, and how to use HTML5 with older browsers. Might be a bit more than five minutes, but I promise I’ll keep it quick. Stick with me ... it’ll be worth it!Semantic Markup and Page LayoutThere’s a great story about a university who, when building their campus, didn’t create any walking paths. They just planted grass and waited.A year later, the grass was all worn out where people walked most frequently. So that’s where the university paved the actual sidewalks...
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07th Nov, 2011 | Emily P. Lewis
Once upon a time, audio on the web lived primarily in the world of third-party browser plug-ins like Flash, QuickTime and Silverlight. This was not a bad world, but it had its issues.For one, most plug-ins require the user to install them, but not all users are willing (or able) to install them. Also, many players built with these plug-ins are inaccessible, making it difficult for folks who use assistive technologies to access the audio or alternative content.Then there are the front-end design hassles like trying to get a dropdown menu to display on top of a plug-in-based p...
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05th Nov, 2011 | Technobabble
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.In this post (and over the next post or two) we review a technology that solves an important piece of the application puzzle – that of managing storage and retrieval of user specific data on the client side, called "Indexed DB". For almost ...
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14th Oct, 2011 | Channel 5
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...
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28th Sep, 2011 | CodePlex
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...
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28th Sep, 2011 | DevProConnections
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...
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28th Sep, 2011 | Channel 5
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...
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28th Sep, 2011 | Technobabble
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...
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