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All posts tagged "ie9"


Tuesday, August 2, 2011

How To Improve Your Mobile Site Performance With W3C Navigation API

Posted by Richard Chao in "Windows Phone News" @ 11:00 PM

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_...timing-api.aspx

"As web sites become more like applications, measuring and tuning their performance dramatically increases in importance, especially on mobile devices where latency and other performance-related factors have a high impact on user satisfaction."

The time it takes to load a web page, especially on a mobile phone, plays a big role in whether visitors continue to return to your site or not. If your load times are too long, visitors will get frustrated and move on to faster loading sites. Optimizing your site's load time will go a long way toward making sure people keep coming back.

In order to ensure websites are optimized, Microsoft is providing developers with the W3C Navigation API in Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. A couple of measurements the W3C API provides data for include:

Time needed to unload previous page

Time elapsed to look up a page's domain

The time points at which the page DOM starts to load and then becomes interactive

Time required to perform the window.onload event

Total time required to load a page from initial navigation request

If you are coding your mobile site and want to optimize for IE9 on Windows Phone, make sure to take a look at the blog post at the Windows Team Blog.


Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Previewing Mango

Posted by Nurhisham Hussein in "Windows Phone Software" @ 10:00 PM

http://www.wpcentral.com/mojo?utm_s...rts+(wpcentral)

"To say "Mango" for Windows Phone 7 is a large update is a bit of an understatement. It's massive. Although we have had two updates to our fledgling OS, both have been relatively minor. "Mango", however, is Microsoft's attempt to fill in all the gaps left from the v1.0 release last fall. Can it succeed?"

WPCentral has been playing with a preview version of Mango, and really like what they see. The scale of the improvements justifies Microsoft's labeling of Mango as WP7.5, and you'll see why after reading through the article.


Wednesday, June 1, 2011

IE9 Design Principles

Posted by Adan Galvan in "Windows Phone News" @ 08:00 AM

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_...-spotlight.aspx

Over at the Windows Phone Developer Blog, Joe Marini has posted some information regarding the key goals for IE9 in the Mango update. As previously discussed, IE9 will bring HTML5 compatibility, hardware accelearation, better CSS compliance, and many other great browser features. Most importantly, the Windows Phone team is looking for feedback on IE9. Hit the link and share you ideas/requested features with the team.


Saturday, March 19, 2011

Demo Of IE9 On WP7 At SXSW

Posted by Richard Chao in "Windows Phone Software" @ 07:41 PM

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/201..._campaign=other

"We did the deed of tracking down the man from Microsoft who was showing off Internet Explorer 9 Mobile at SXSW, and shot video of his demonstration."

The Next Web got an early look at Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Phone 7 at South By Southwest. IE9 for WP7 gains support for HTML5 video and audio, Scalable Vector Graphics ("SVG") for better rendering performance, the address bar was moved down to the bottom so it's more accessible and browser chrome was minimized so web pages shine through. We should see IE9 available as an update on our phones later this year.


Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Windows Phone 7 Multitasking, IE9 and Skydrive Future Features Shown

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Windows Phone News" @ 03:30 PM

http://blog.laptopmag.com/microsoft...ile+Technology)

"Giving a closer look at some of the new Windows Phone 7 features that are coming this spring, VP for Windows Phone Program Management Joe Belfiore demonstrated the operating system's upcoming ability to multitask, integrate with SkyDrive, and display web pages using IE 9. Though full details were scarce, we got a good taste of what we can expect when Microsoft rolls out its update in the March or April time frame."

These videos are all unfortunately pretty bad in terms of quality, but these videos are showing three of the key features that will be coming to Windows Phone 7 later in 2011: multitasking (though in reality it's not "true" multitasking), IE9, and Skydrive support for the Office hub.


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