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Last week, you talked about what creates Internet Explorer 9 Beta all around fast. Earlier this week, you talked to Myspace about a softened knowledge they can suggest their millions of users upon an all around quick browser similar to Internet Explorer 9 Beta with a brand new facilities in HTML5. Today you interpretation a array of posts upon “All Around Fast” by receiving a step in to a destiny with Stimulant to see a energetic web knowledge which indeed pushes a browser to a limits.
Stimulant is a growth organisation with offices in San Francisco as good as Seattle. They emanate digital practice opposite a series of formats from Flash, to Silverlight, to multi-touch applications for a Microsoft Surface table. For a launch of Internet Explorer 9 Beta, you challenged Stimulant to emanate an extraordinary as good as pleasing web knowledge which pushed a boundary of HTML5 as good as a underlying browser. They came up with www.webvizbench.com, an interactive cognisance of most years of playlist interpretation from local, eccentric air wave hire KEXP.
Earlier this week, you sat down with Josh Santangelo from Stimulant who walked us by an update to WebVizBench which was demoed during this week’s Professional Developers Conference. The updated chronicle allows you to cavalcade in to KEXP Playlist interpretation by DJ as good as by date.
In a video below, Josh walks us by a demo which shows off a extraordinary web practice which HTML5 allows developers to set up when it’s regulating upon a entirely hardware took off browser similar to IE9 Beta.
You can try a demo for yourself during www.kexparchive.org. Since this demo is written to pull your browser to a boundary you’ll get a opposite knowledge depending upon which browser you have been using. There have been a series of keyboard shortcuts you can make use of in a demo to spin upon additional facilities to serve pull your browser :
| Key | Feature |
| v | Turns on/off video background |
| a | Turns on/off alpha transparency |
| s | Turns on/off scaling |
| r | Turns on/off rotation |
Off camera, you asked Josh how web standards similar to HTML5 competence shift their proceed to building constrained digital experiences.
“A lot of what you concentration upon is a rich, vast format experience. So if you do a vast multi-touch table, we’re still starting to do it upon Surface,” Santangelo said. “But HTML5 opens up growth options which weren’t there before.”
WebVizBench additionally facilities a “benchmark mode” where it runs by a series of pre-determined user actions so you can review a capabilities of opposite browsers.
“The proclivity for a benchmark was when a IE9 height preview came out, there were benchmarks included, as good as you longed for to emanate something which unequivocally represented a subsequent era web knowledge which competence essentially happen,” Santangelo said.
To try out WebVizBench upon IE9, download a Internet Explorer 9 Beta upon www.beautyoftheweb.com.
Today, during the Professional Developers Conference, we voiced Internet Explorer Platform Preview 6 as well as common the sparkling headlines which we have had some-more than 10 million downloads of the Internet Explorer 9 Beta creation Internet Explorer 9 the fastest adopted browser beta to date!
In the run up to Internet Explorer 9 Beta, we expelled the set of Platform Previews which concede developers to proceed to suppose what their site would be similar to with the fully hardware took off browser which upheld the same markup opposite browsers. With the Internet Explorer 9 Beta the partners showcased the brand new immersive experiences they were means to deliver, interjection to carrying those height preview releases early. Clearly the business have been vehement about the intensity for the practice unbarred by IE9 with some-more than 10M downloads to date.
With the recover of Internet Explorer Platform Preview 6 developers can see the little of the work we’ve finished post-Beta, together with ancillary some-more standards similar to CSS3’s 2D transforms. Dean talks some-more about the work we’ve done over upon the IE engineering blog though we can see the little of the practice enabled by Internet Explorer Platform Preview 6 in this video :
As we can see from the video, the disproportion in between the entirely hardware took off browser by Windows vs. the prejudiced doing can have the element disproportion to the knowledge upon the web. Previously, we have common the little of the work which has left in to creation IE9 all-around fast, though we suspicion it would be beneficial to assistance yield an general outlook of what hardware increase in speed unequivocally does for the browser. Here’s the judgment video we put together for the Internet Explorer 9 Beta which should give we the clarity of how hardware increase in speed works.
If we haven’t yet, download IE9 Beta during http://beautyoftheweb.com as well as see first-hand what the entirely hardware took off IE9 can enable.
Ryan
Last week, you shared a perspective upon what it equates to for a browser to be all around fast. By harnessing a full energy of a PC, Internet Explorer 9 Beta enables sites to emanate brand brand new sorts of web site. In this post, you speak to Myspace about what an all around fast browser equates to for their site.
Myspace was proposed behind in 2003, as well as quick grew in to a tip tellurian site to bond with friends online. Myspace upheld 100 million users behind in 2006, as well as continues to capture a vast assembly today.
Over a years a site has blossomed to take upon a heavier song as well as video participation – both areas budding for creation upon a web. We held up with Patrick Srail, executive of product government for Myspace Video, during a Internet Explorer 9 Beta eventuality in San Francisco, as well as asked him how an all around quick browser similar to Internet Explorer 9 Beta is assisting them take a video upon their site to a subsequent level. Patrick additionally gives a demo of a brand brand new Myspace facilities enabled by Internet Explorer 9 Beta.
The hardware increase in speed in Internet Explorer 9 Beta enables Myspace to offer aloft fortitude HTML5 video, upping a knowledge their business get examination video upon a site. Check behind after in a week to listen to from an additional partner who has taken value of a assorted opening enhancements in IE9 Beta.
Today Messenger for Mac 8 came out of beta! It will be accessible (soon) as partial of a Office for Mac 2011 suite, as well as is additionally accessible as a giveaway standalone download.
Messenger for Mac 8 provides real-time partnership in between Mac users as well as their Messenger friends, either those friends have been regulating Messenger upon a PC, phone, by Hotmail, or upon an additional Mac. You can make make make use of of of present messaging, audio, as well as video calls to promulgate with your Messenger contacts by signing in with your Windows Live ID.
On Sep 24th, a Mac group blogged about how their concentration will go upon to be upon facilities which magnify a capability of Windows Live business who make make make use of of of Office applications. For this reason, facilities which tumble outward of which mission, such as games or a brand new amicable views accessible in a Windows chronicle of Messenger 2011, won’t be accessible for a Mac.
We goal you’ll go upon to suffer staying in hold by IM as well as video chatting with your closest friends upon Messenger, opposite all a inclination we as well as your friends use.
Piero Sierra
Group Program Manager, Windows Live
It’s been 3 weeks given we expelled Windows Live Essentials 2011 as well as over sixteen million people have downloaded a ultimate version. We’re really vehement about what Windows Live Essentials 2011 brings to Windows 7. Some of a pass facilities we’d call out:
You can download a brand new Windows Live Essentials 2011 here to get proposed today.
And it’s still giveaway …
Dharmesh Mehta
Director, Windows Live Product Management
Recently, we expelled chronicle 4.1 of Windows Live Messenger Connect. This chronicle brings Messenger Connect out of beta as well as creates it accessible to everyone. Angus Logan describes many of the changes we’ve done in his brand brand new blog post. we additionally rarely suggest we check out the brand brand new developer guide, which outlines how we can proceed office office building applications which confederate with Windows Live.
A usual subject which we’ve been asked has been upon office office building desktop applications with Messenger Connect. While it’s loyal which many of the Messenger Connect support focuses upon web-based applications, we can still set up applications for the desktop regulating Messenger Connect. All we need is the Messenger Connect Desktop Starter Kit, now accessible for download from the MSDN Code Gallery. (Look for the record declared Desktop_Sample_App.zip underneath the v4.1 samples release.)
Before we proceed regulating the starter kit, we need to register your focus during http://manage.dev.live.com. Registration takes only the integrate of minutes; we can find some-more minute stairs upon the registration routine in the Messenger Connect documentation.
When we open the starter kit, you’ll find the integrate of opposite representation projects. The many appropriate the single to proceed with is the AuthTest project. This plan provides the elementary pass in to how to make make use of of the Messenger Connect authentication as well as agree process. For this plan to accumulate as well as run correctly, open the SigninTester.cs record in the AuthTest Project. Then, fix up the line:
AppInformation appInfo = new AppInformation("00000000YourClientID", "YourSecretKey", requestedScopes);
Change the values in line to enclose the customer ID as well as tip pass we perceived when we purebred your application.
When we accumulate as well as run the sample, we get the flattering elementary dialog box.
Nothing as well exciting, yet. But notice the http://apis.live.net/V4.1 endpoint in the content box – some-more upon which shortly. First, let’s get things starting by clicking the SignIn button. This brings up the Windows Live agree dialog box.
Type in the current Windows Live ID as well as password, as well as afterwards click Connect. Back in the representation application, the SignIn symbol has altered to the Navigate button. Click the button, as well as the dialog updates with the top-level REST interpretation located during http://apis.live.net/V4.1.
From here, we can navigate by the REST endpoints by duplicating as well as pasting them in to the URI content box. For example, if we wish to get my form information, we would make make use of of http://profiles.apis.live.net/v4.0/cid-XXX/Profiles, where XXX is the CID the focus perceived after we sealed in.
You can get the unequivocally great clarity of how the REST endpoints work in Messenger Connect regulating the REST Explorer: http://rex.mslivelabs.com/.
So what’s starting at the behind of the scenes here? Let’s tighten out of the dialog box as well as lapse to Visual Studio. Open up the SignInTester.cs file. This is the record that’s we do many of the work. Two methods mount out in particular: SigninSynchronous as well as btnNavigate_Click.
void SigninSynchronous()
{
user1 = new MessengerConnectSigninContext();
Collection<Scope> requestedScopes = new Collection<Scope>();
requestedScopes.Add(Scope.ContactsView);
AppInformation appInfo = new AppInformation("00000000YourClientID", "YourSecretKey", requestedScopes);
user1.GetToken(appInfo);
EnableMessengerConnectBrowsing();
}
The SigninSynchronous process fires when the user clicks the Signin button. The unequivocally engaging partial here is the scopes collection:
Collection<Scope> requestedScopes = new Collection<Scope>();
This line creates it easy to supplement the scopes which carry out what Windows Live interpretation we can entrance upon the user’s behalf. In the starter kit, we’re removing the WL_Contacts.View range from the pre-defined constant, as shown in the line:
requestedScopes.Add(Scope.ContactsView);
If we longed for to ask one some-more scopes, we’d only need to call requestedScopes.Add again for any one some-more scope. Check out the SDK for some-more report upon what scopes have been available, as well as what they do.
Once we have the scopes we want, it’s only the make the difference of formulating the brand brand new AppInformation intent which contains your application’s customer ID, tip key, as well as requested scopes. The GetToken process handles opening the Windows Live Consent dialog box as well as estimate the entrance token we get behind when the user signs in successfully.
The btnNavigate_Click process is really identical to what we would do if we were essay the web application.
private void btnNavigate_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
Uri someUri = new Uri(txtUri.Text);
WebRequest webRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(someUri);
webRequest.Method = "GET";
webRequest.Headers[MessengerConnectConstants.AuthorizationHeader] = user1.AuthorizationToken;
WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();
StreamReader responseStreamReader = new StreamReader(webResponse.GetResponseStream());
String reply = responseStreamReader.ReadToEnd();
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(response);
StringBuilder formattedBuilder = new StringBuilder();
XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.Indent = true;
XmlWriter bard = XmlWriter.Create(formattedBuilder, settings);
doc.WriteTo(writer);
writer.Close();
txtOutput.Text = formattedBuilder.ToString();
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
txtOutput.Text = exception.Message + "\r\n" + exception.StackTrace;
}
}
As we can see, it takes the URI as well as creates the WebRequest regulating the entrance token of the Windows Live user. As this is the flattering elementary example, the process only writes the reply behind out to the dialog box. This is where we can precedence the REST Explorer as well as the Windows Live SDK to set up some-more functionality in to the sample.
We goal this starter pack gives we the little great discernment upon how to set up desktop applications with Messenger Connect. We’re operative tough upon upon condition that some-more report upon how to formula with Messenger Connect – meanwhile, if we have questions or feedback, greatfully leave the comment.
Jeff usually voiced upon Inside Windows Live which Messenger Connect is right divided out of beta. In this post you wish to give you a small context upon a technical changes. These changes have been a outcome good feedback from a 2500+ people who participated in a beta as well as a confederate of months of growth time. We focused on: Making it simpler to get up as well as running, easier as well as faster development, and delivering a small core scenarios formed upon feedback.
If you have been brand brand new to a use you wish to: assimilate what it can do, flog a tires, as well as get entrance quickly. We revamped dev.live.com so you can some-more fast establish if Messenger Connect is something you wish to supplement to your site. Seeing-is-believing, so you combined a couple of links to tiny representation sites (try them: identity, sharing badge, chat control).
During a beta you got a lot of a questions about which permissions (scopes) web sites can ask consumers for. Some scopes have been “restricted” as well as they have been technically accessible in a height though were not finished accessible to all companies for assorted reasons (security, privacy, supportability, etc.). We hadn’t finished a good pursuit of creation it transparent which ones were during large accessible as well as which ones were not (in line with a data portability & remoteness principles) – so you rewrote a Messenger Connect Scopes page to reasonably set expectations with developers.
Once you confirm to supplement Messenger Connect to your site, you longed for to have which simpler to do, so you combined a small brand brand new tools. For a sharing badge (which doesn’t need registration around a developer portal), you right divided list all a “aggregators” which embody a Messenger pity badge. We additionally built a small antecedent apparatus to denote how you can beget a formula to supplement a pinned token to your site. This antecedent does a small engaging things similar to usually display a pity pinned token for specific browser locales etc.
If you have been regulating functionality similar to identity, amicable distribution, as well as in page IM/chat, you contingency have a Client ID – you can right divided get a Client ID around a developer portal though requiring acceptance in to a beta. You can usually go to https://manage.dev.live.com as well as pointer in with your Windows Live ID, as well as emanate a Client ID. During a beta you had singular entrance as well as were intermittently onboarding developers.
We outlayed a lot of time meditative about how you can have it simpler for developers to element their websites with a Messenger Connect implementation. To do this you focused upon a questions as well as suggestions from a people who participated in a beta. We wrote a new developer guide, which outlines how you can begin office building applications which confederate with Windows Live.
Whilst coding, developers similar to to run formula over as well as over again, tweaking it a little, though services need throttling boundary for altogether use stability. To strike these opposing requirements, you combined a debug endpoint which has really tall stifle limits. You can formula divided as well as tell tons of activities without fright of a stifle extent blunder messing with your growth mojo.
For sharing user activities in to Windows Live, ActivityStrea.ms is super absolute specification, as well as you adore it. But a format itself isn’t a esteem – your calm (or user activity) as well as how it appears in a user knowledge is. We await ~20 opposite templates, though meaningful which will crop up many appropriate in Windows Live as well as get a many volume of clickbacks is infrequently difficult. That is since you created a ActivityStrea.ms template preference tool which helps you name a template, see a code, see how it is starting to be rendered in Windows Live (and which tools of a ActivityStrea.ms get rendered where), as well as try it out.
Partners regulating Messenger Connect for identity as well as job a Profile API gave us feedback which mixed calls were compulsory to broach mainstream scenarios (such as: get a user’s name, email address, as well as form picture). To have this simpler you condensed a reply for a Profile API and additionally finished a avatar accessible though authentication (of march user agree is required).
During a beta you listened about 2 things which were restraint adoption: 1) you wish to be means to email a continuous user’s friends, as well as 2) a chat control is cool, though mediation is required.
Given a view upon interpretation portability as well as privacy, instead of pity a continuous user’s friends’ email addresses, instead you created an Invitation API. This API enables web sites to send out email invitations on interest of a continuous user to their Windows Live friends. This increases deliverability as well as additionally conversion since it is sent upon interest of a continuous user.
The Chat Control is a good approach to strap a energy of digital flashmobs (where lots of people will be upon a same site during a same time) as well as will wish to be means to discuss or criticism upon an object in realtime. The comments aren’t persisted though they have been manifest in your site. We added after a actuality mediation of a discuss control. You can capacitate a discuss judge to undo messages, perspective a incomparable summary history, as well as retard users from posting.
Analytics have been a pass partial of any project. In this recover we have combined some-more analytics reports as well as ways for you to see just how your Messenger Connect doing is performing.
Based upon feedback from early adopters, a strongly typed Messenger Connect .NET living room has been discontinued. Future growth efforts in this area will concentration upon samples which work without delay with a REST-based web services.
This recover was driven by a beta participants since they gave us good feedback. If you consider there is something you should do or change, greatfully spend a small time in a forum dev.live.com/forums.
Angus Logan
Senior technical product manager, Windows Live
As we might have heard, Microsoft done a major proclamation about Windows Phone 7 this morning. On a Inside Windows Live blog, my co-worker Chris Jones wrote about a little of a most places where Windows Phone integrates with Windows Live in this blog post.
Here upon a Windows Live for Developers, I’m vehement to let we know which a Windows Live activities upon a “People Hub” of Windows Phone 7 have been powered by Activity Streams. Yes, a same Atom Activity Extensions format which I wrote about in August have been powering a “what’s new” perspective upon a Windows Phone 7 “People Hub.”
Also, whilst a upon top of screenshot shows usually Windows Live as well as Facebook, if we connect alternative services to Windows Live similar to LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, WordPress, as well as ~70 more, we as well as your friends will additionally see these in a People Hub knowledge upon Windows Phone 7.
For e.g. of what a Windows Live Activity Streams feed looks like, crop to your Windows Live Profile during http://profile.live.com/ (or feel giveaway to use mine) as well as afterwards click a orange RSS/Atom symbol in your web browser to see a open chronicle of which user’s wake up stream. You’ll see a URL like:
http://api.live.net/Users(-5141839532282463176)/Activities?$format=atom10&mkt=en-US
and if we View | Source, you’ll see a Activity Streams feed, only similar to what is used by Win Phone 7:
If you’d similar to to sense some-more about Activity Streams, revisit http://ActivityStrea.ms/, as well as if you’d similar to to stick on a Windows Phone 7 group in building with a Windows Live Activity Streams API’s, check-out this blog post as well as http://dev.live.com/. Thanks really much–
–Rob