2. The Web
Andrew Spooner
Microsoft
@andspo

3. Hello, and good morning. Welcome to Tech. Days live
Hello, and good morning. Welcome to Tech.Days live. I'm really excited to welcome you all here today. Looking out over this room knowing that I'm talking to some of the most talented, dedicated and hard working web developers is pretty scarry. But, looking over the content and the amazing speakers that you will be listening today, I know that you can expect a day of brilliant and inspirational learning.
The web has become part of almost everything that we do. For communication, sharing and keeping in touch with our relatives and friends both near to us and far away. For research - to calm our minds about medical issues, investigating new purchases from cars to books to phones to clothes. Booking restaurants and receiving the impartial review of hundreds of people. 15 years ago, this was not possible. 15 years ago, my local library still ran searches on microfilm. 15 years ago, If I wanted to share a photo with my relatives on the other side of the world, I would go to Boots, get a copy and drop it in an envelope and post it to them. 15 years, in life's scheme of things, isn't that long ago. The web has become an integral part of all our lives and we, no, you, the developers are the most important part of this engine.
Going back only 2 years, rich internet experiences were the preserve of plugins. Browsers were not capable on their own of delivering the creative ideas that developers and designers were coming up with.
And there's a problem with introducing plugins, it means that the browser is being forced to perform an action outside of its native environment - and as developers, we'd rather have native support for important features rather than an add-in or a hack.
Every library, every layer, every abstraction between your site and the device challenge performance, reliability, and the overall experience.
Native experiences are the best experiences. Enter HTML5. Fully hardware accelerated HTML5 is now available and it is capable of providing remarkable experiences, native to the browser, and native to Windows.
But before we look at the current state of Internet Explorer, lets take a look at how you feel about some of some of the legacy issues.

9. Platform Previews Media Queries Hardware Accelerated SVG
Hardware Accelerated HTML5
Canvas
Video
Audio
WOFF
ACID3 Test Improvements
Site Pinning

10. Site Pinning 4% of users actually use browser bookmarks
87% of users launch an application from the Windows taskbar
Basic Pinning
Advance Pinning with Jump Lists and Dynamic Updates

13. Platform Previews CSS3 2D Transforms HTML5 Semantic Tags Geolocation
Tracking Protection
JavaScript Performance
17,000 bugs

14. HTML5 Site Demos BMW – Joy Defines The Future The Wired Mind
Way Out Wars
SVG Girl

16. IE10 – Platform Preview 1
CSS Gradients
Tweet Columns

17. CSS3 Gradients

18. CSS3 Gradients

19. CSS3 Gradients

20. CSS3 Gradients

21. CSS3 Gradients

22. IE10 – Platform Preview 1
CSS Gradients
Tweet Columns

23. ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update
Final release of EF 4.1
Built-in data scaffolding support
New HTML5 project templates
Intranet Project Template
Newer versions of jQuery core, jQuery UI and jQuery Validation

24. Feedback Download the Platform Previews & Feedback Site Pinning
Take advantage of Hardware Acceleration

25. Andrew Spooner Microsoft @andspo andrew.spooner@microsoft.com
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