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Keep Users Coming Back With Desktop Notifications for Web Apps Article A few days ago, an article I wrote for DZone web site was published in their HTML5 Microzone . The article is called “ Keep Users Coming Back With Desktop Notifications for Web Apps ” and it discusses desktop notifications and in particular IE9 Pinned Sites and HTML5 Notification API. You can read the article here . Enjoy! CodeProject
Profiling JavaScript 101 Using IE9 Developer Tools Lately I’m involved in a very interesting project which suffer from JavaScript performance issues in old browsers. The main “pain” in the project is the need to support IE8 which is used by many of the client’s users. I’ve got a call to come and help in the process of tuning the application and decided to share some tips of how I profiled the application and found some of the bottlenecks in the application JavaScript execution. Those bottlenecks...
Feature Detection for Better Compatibility in Web Development One of the things I talked about in the session I had about what’s new in IE9 for web developers was how to make your web site/application more compatible. In this post I’ll try to give the highlights from the session. Same Markup When we develop web sites/applications we need to strive to use features that give us the same markup in every browser. When we know about a feature that is compatible in every browser we can use it without any...
Using Overlay Icon API to Make Client Notifications in IE9 Ever wanted to notify your site clients/users while they are surfing in your site. In one of the applications that I helped to build this was a customer requirement. So in the past you could have implemented a blinking behavior that will make the icon of the browser blinking. Not a very user friendly behavior for my taste. With IE9 you now able to use the new SiteMode Overlay Icon javascript behavior which is part of the site pinning...
Using Javascript to Measure Web Page Performance with IE9 One ability that currently available in IE9 is the new msPerformance javascript object that enables developers to measure real-world performance of websites. In this post I’ll explain what is msPerformance and how you can use it to measure web page performance. The msPerformance Object Wanting a web application that performs great is a very regular and crucial demand in these days. With IE9 beta developers have a new set of javascript profiling...
Adding Tasks and Jumplists to Pinned Sites in IE9 In a previous post I explained what is site pinning and how you can pin a site to Windows 7 taskbar. In this post I’m going to explain how to add tasks and jumplists to the pinned site from the previous post example. Adding Tasks to a Pinned Site When we pin a site to the Windows 7 taskbar we can include tasks to operate on the pinned site . With this feature you can add tasks for common behavior of your site. For example, in a library site you can...