Note from the author: apologies if this post sounds like a Microsoft marketing campaign, but I am really excited about this technology!
Let’s say you have a website and you want to give your visitors the experience edge.
The media experience can be improved by using Microsoft Silverlight on your website. Some of the features include:
- Vector graphics with light, degrade and other effects
- Overlaying your HTML with Silverlight content
- React to keyboard input
- Video overlay
- Real-time data
- AJAX
Some impressive examples can be found on the Silverlight website. Here’s a few from the top of my head:
- Single coloured backgrounds? Forget about them! Create amazing forms, patterns, shades and colour rich backgrounds
- Animation effects, including menu transition, drag and drop, zoom, pop-ups, animated drop down, 3D wheel and “page turning”
- Better user experience patterns
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Telmo wrote this on 18.03.08 – 33 comments
It's filed in the Design, Development, Marketing, User experience box
Nixon McInnes warned their customers and business partners today of the possible implications of the launch of Internet Explorer 7 by Microsoft. Internet Explorer is the major global web browser accounting for approximately 70% of website traffic. The launch of Internet Explorer 7 by Microsoft may cause fundamental access and functionality issues for existing websites. The new version of the browser due to be launched in late October may cause the website visual layout, online forms, applications using secure connections and complex Javascript to break or not function as expected.
We recommend that site owners act before the proposed launch to work with either their in-house web team or with their web design agency to take steps to ensure their site is audited and made compatible with the new version of this most popular browser.
With over 70% of target audiences using Internet Explorer to view a website it is clearly not worth taking the chance of them not being able to view or use the site correctly with the resulting negative impact that could have on business.
Find out more information from Microsoft about the launch of IE7
Jo wrote this on 18.10.06 – 1 comment
It's filed in the Interesting, Internet box
