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With our trip to Austin, TX (check-out our recaps of day 1, day 2, day 3) and the launch of IE9 RTW behind us, the work of building a more beautiful web doesn’t stop. Next stop on our road trip: MIX11 in Las Vegas!
MIX is all about the future of the web. MIX is an amazing opportunity to engage in discussion about where the web is going with top speakers from the web community and key product teams from Microsoft.
Across 86 total sessions, MIX11 is bursting at the seams with cutting-edge content focused on HTML5 and related technologies. Whether you’re focused on going deep on a technology like Canvas, improving the performance of your HTML5 code or diving into emerging technologies like WebSockets, there is something for you this year at MIX11. Here are just a few of the sessions we’re excited about:
Jason Weber
Learn how you can make your sites faster directly from the Internet Explorer Performance Team. These are the same guys who brought you GPU accelerated graphics and compiled JavaScript with Internet Explorer 9, and they’re going to share their favorite 50 best practices for web developers. This session will provide an inside look into browser performance, discuss why common web best practices are important, and then go deep into how to get the most from new HTML5 capabilities including Canvas, Audio, Video, SVG, local storage, and more.
John Bristowe@jbristowe
By now, you’ve heard about pinned sites in Internet Explorer 9. And, you’ve probably even used them yourself. But, did you know that this feature can help increase site visits and engagements by as much as 50%? In this session, you’ll hear stories of Pinned Site implementations by some of the most popular websites on the web today. You’ll also discover how to support pinned sites with a few lines of markup. Finally, you’ll learn best practices that will help you deliver an awesome experience to your visitors.
Rey Bango@reybango
Everyone wants to jump into HTML5 but how do you use the cool features of this new specification while ensuring older browsers render your web pages as expected? This is where polyfills and shims come in. In the session, you’ll learn how to use specially crafted JavaScript and CSS code that emulate HTML5 features so that you can take advantage of HTML5 today without breaking your sites in older browsers.
Joe Marini@joemarini
The mobile Web is here, it’s huge, and your business can’t afford to ignore it. Mobile users have come to expect their favorite Web sites to give them a great mobile experience – otherwise, they find new favorite sites that do. In this session, Joe Marini, Principal Program Manager for Internet Explorer on Windows Phone will take you through the design and experience principles you need to consider when creating your mobile Web presence, teach you about the exciting new HTML5 capabilities that Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Phone 7 will support, and show you how to give your sites the next-generation features you need to engage your users on their smartphones.
Giorgio Sardo@gisardo
We love HTML5 so much that we want it to actually work – in an interoperable, predictable manner across all browsers. In this session you will learn the current status of HTML5 and the Open Web Platform and what will take to bring it to a Recommendation. You will also preview the next emerging standards and understand Microsoft implementation approach through prototypes. Finally ride the DeLorean at 88mph and discover some of the work being done by Microsoft with the W3C on what will lead into HTML6.
Nigel Parker@nzigel
Come along to this session to get an overview of the new video and audio tags from the HTML5 specification. Discover how to use them to play media in modern browsers and on mobile devices. Learn the most advanced techniques and best practices, including encoding optimizations, custom skinnable players, full screen workarounds, seeking settings and fallback scenarios for legacy browsers
Check-out the full list of the sessions which are also helpfully tagged in case you’re looking specifically for sessions on HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Web Standards, UX and more. If you are coming to Las Vegas, please stop by and say hi! You can always track us down by following @IE, we will be organizing a bunch of fun activities outside of the official MIX agenda.
See you at MIX11!
Talking about IE9, I just wish I could install it on my Windows 7 computer without windows explorer stopping working and doing a restart every time I try to access the Control Panel, My Documents folder, etc and not opening what I was trying to access. I had to uninstall it using system restore (accessed via start menu- all programs- accessories - system tools).
Yes, in my view Microsoft should create a browser, which is comfortable and is able to read HTML5 and CSS, because it's very important for many pages. I think, it's important for the web development, too.
IE development needs to move faster. Microsoft is on the right track with its platform previews but even the GUI always needs feedback. Hopefully IE10 will be announced at MIX and there will be full browser preview releases instead of just platform previews.