Category Archives: Web

What you’re getting with IE9

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File:Internet Explorer 9.pngOn March 14 at South by Southwest, Microsoft officially announced the release of their new browser, Internet Explorer 9. After the introduction of IE6 and Windows XP, the Microsoft browser became a market leader only to lay dormant for many years. With the release of IE7 and IE8, new features were introduced and the product release cycle was shortened. This the latest version of IE is the most dramatic change yet to the long running Microsoft product.

The face of the World Wide Web is changing. Web standards and capabilities are evolving more rapidly than ever. Many companies like Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft are working to make the web a more exciting and enjoyable experience.

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IE9 Pinned Sites

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One of the great features of Windows 7 is the ability to pin applications to the taskbar. Pinned applications had the ability to define right-click menus or jump-lists which contained recent files, relevant tasks, and other links. Now more than ever web sites are turning into full web applications. IE9 provides a way to add this pinning functionality to your web site. In order to pin a web site you need only to drag the favicon or site tab down to your Windows 7 taskbar.

A user drops the tab on the taskbar to pin the site to the taskbar

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CSS3 Media Queries

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CSS is an excellent example of responsibility separation. Web site HTML no longer needs to contain excess information about style and formatting, all of that information can be defined within CSS. The days of font, center, and table tags are far behind us. However, a well styled site needs to account for a wide variety of user devices. Sites have solved this problem using a separate mobile site entirely (like http://m.winnipegtransit.com) and sometimes using JavaScript to redirect the user to the mobile site based off their client. Even with that method a site could have three or four alternates based on how many different mobile devices are supported. CSS Media Queries can help you define a single site which can be re-styled based off a users media type.

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