Cut The Rope now available for Microsoft Internet Explorer 9

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Jan 132012
 

The HTML5 version of the popular Cut the Rope game is now available online for free. With the power of HTML5, IE9 and Windows, experiences that were once limited to applications are now coming to life across the web.  You can play Cut the Rope at www.cuttherope.ie.

To get a sense for how the developers at Pixel Lab and ZeptoLab teamed up to turn one of the world’s most popular applications into a web experience, check out the behind the scene technical tear-down in the game  http://www.cuttherope.ie/dev/.

Internet Explorer 9 provides the safest web browsing experience against socially engineered malware

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Aug 182011
 

NSS Labs,an independent security research and testing organization, released two reports which show that SmartScreen continues to offer the industry leading protection against socially engineered malware. According to the global NSS report, IE9 caught an exceptional 96% of the live threats with SmartScreen URL reputation, and an additional 3.2% with Application Reputation.

The other reports looked at socially engineered malware targeted towards people living in the Asia Pacific region and in Europe. In each region the results remained consistent – Internet Explorer 9 maintains a lead in protecting users from live threats.

Internet Explorer 9 is designed with your security and privacy in mind. Innovative features such as SmartScreen and Application Reputation are examples of technologies that help protect you as you browse from an increasingly prevalent threat – socially engineered malware.

IE10 Developer Platform Preview 2 Available for Download

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Jun 302011
 

IE10 Platform Preview 2, a technical release aimed at web developers, is now available for download.

There are lots of new improvements and implementations of HTML5 and CSS3 like:

  • Beautiful and interactive Web applications are easier to deliver with support for several new technologies like CSS3 Positioned Floats, HTML5 Drag-drop, File Reader API, Media Query Listeners and initial support for HTML5 Forms.
  • HTML5 Application performance improves across the board, as well as the ability to deliver better performance with more efficient use of battery life with new technologies like Web Workers with Channel Messaging, Async script support, and others.
  • Web application security improves using the same markup with support for HTML5 Sandbox for iframe isolation.

You can read the full list here in the IE10 developer guide.

Previewing the new Windows 8 User Interface (Video)

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Jun 022011
 

This first video of Windows 8 – Building “Windows 8″ – is a series of videos over the next few months showcasing the new features of Windows 8. In this video, it shows the first look of the new Windows 8 user interface (UI) which covers the following features:

  • Fast launching of apps from a tile-based Start screen, which replaces the Windows Start menu with a customizable, scalable full-screen view of apps.
  • Live tiles with notifications, showing always up-to-date information from your apps.
  • Fluid, natural switching between running apps.
  • Convenient ability to snap and resize an app to the side of the screen, so you can really multitask using the capabilities of Windows.
  • Web-connected and Web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript that have access to the full power of the PC.
  • Fully touch-optimized browsing, with all the power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10.
  • New “Thumbs” keyboard layout.

Look at that smooth buttery scrolling and several physics “bounce”. It really looks like nice merger of the Windows Phone 7 UI into the new Windows 8 UI. I would definitely love to see some of the new UI trickle back to Windows Phone 7. Thumbs up for creating a great user experience with the new Windows 8. Maybe Microsoft finally gets it. I can’t wait to get my hands on Windows 8 in September.

Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 1 is now Available

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Apr 132011
 

Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 1 is available for download today. This is mainly for developers and people who are interested to test out the new features of Internet Explorer 10.

Welcome to the Platform Preview

The Platform Preview is an early look at the Internet Explorer platform so some features are incomplete, some may change, and some may be added. To learn more about this preview of the Web Platform, please see the Internet Explorer 10 Developer Guide. These release notes list new features available in the latest Platform Preview and known issues with those features. To report issues, and provide feedback please click on Report Issue and click Send Feedback.

What’s New in Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 1

Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 1 is the first public preview of the IE10 web platform. In this release, we are showcasing support for CSS3 Flexbox, CSS3 Grid Alignment, CSS3 Multi-column, CSS3 Gradients on background-images and ECMAScript5 Strict Mode.

 

Play Master Of The Web Game with Internet Explorer 9

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Mar 242011
 

Internet Explorer 9 is one of the biggest step for Internet Explorer, the widely used browser, offering various improvements to enhance the experience of the web.

Notably:

  • Site-Pinning, Jump-Lists, Aero-snap
  • Enhanced GPU acceleration making amazing graphics possible
  • Tracking Protection and SmartScreen malware protection

Now, you can win some prizes by installing Internet Explorer 9 on your Windows 7 machine and playing, Master Of The Web, a fully graphics accelerated HTML 5 compliant game on your browser without the use of any plugin like Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight.

Internet Explorer 9 RC Released

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Feb 112011
 

For those still sitting on the fence whether to try out Internet Explorer 9, with the release of Internet Explorer 9 RC, now is the time to really see the capabilities and improvements of IE9 over IE8. After installing IE9, you should go to the IE Test Drive site and the Beauty of the Web site to try out the full capabilities of what IE9 can offer you.

Download it here: Internet Explorer 9 RC

The new IE9 focuses on real world web performance, with the following key improvements and additional features helping to deliver the best web experience on Windows 7:

Greater ease of use

With a simplified user interface and cleaner, more site-centric user experience, notifications and browser functions take up less space to make room for website content. Tools like Pinned Sites, JumpLists and the new One Box also make it easy to access the things you love.

Improved speed

A newly-optimized document object model (DOM) and Javascript engine work together with hardware-accelerated graphics to deliver richer, more immersive Web experiences that are as fast as applications installed on your computer.

More robust security and privacy technologies

With Tracking Protection to help limit communication of private information with certain websites, ActiveX Filtering, and the first download manager with integrated SmartScreen malware protection, the browsing experience is safer on IE9 than ever before.

IE9 Beta Release on 15th September

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Sep 142010
 


The wait is over for the newest beta version of Microsoft’s browser, Internet Explorer 9. Starting on September 15, 2010 (PDT), users will be invited to download this newest test version. Internet Explorer 9 offers substantial improvements the current version including: a streamlined interface, full hardware-accelerated HTML5, modern SVG and native JavaScript integration, support for the Web Open Font Format as well as faster overall performance. The new Internet Explorer 9 Beta provides a more secure, stable and fast browsing experience.

Internet Explorer 9 Beta is compatible with Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7 PCs. It is not available for earlier versions of Windows Vista or with PCs running Windows XP.

Find out download details and more at beautyoftheweb.com.

CSS3 Progressive Internet Explorer

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Jul 192010
 

CSS3 PIE

Lately, I’ve been working on getting nice CSS3 features like rounded boxes, box shadows, and gradients into my HTML without using any images. This resulted in really fast loading websites because very few images were used. However, Internet Explorer (IE) 6, 7, 8 doesn’t support CSS3 at all, which really makes my life difficult when I need to support multiple browsers.

Never fear! CSS3 Progressive Internet Explorer (PIE) is an IE attached behavior which, when applied to an element, allows IE to recognize and display a number of CSS3 properties. That’s just amazing, and saved me lots of time trying to support IE.