Giorgio Sardo Blog

Around the World with a Browser

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:27:23 GMT

From Build to FOWA (Future of Web Apps) in London to TechEd China in Beijing: thank you all for your kind feedbacks! It’s great to see so much interest around HTML5, to meet amazing people and to hear so many great feedbacks about the work we are doing...(read more)

Getting Rid of IE6: Check.

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:42:00 GMT

Check your score at http://www.ie6countdown.com Time to move on ......(read more)

Bing Maps add support for HTML5 Geolocation

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:03:13 GMT

Bing Maps is the first online service that provides geolocation support to all desktop and mobile browsers that support the new HTML5 Geolocation APIs . (*) When you navigate to bing.com/maps , you will notice a new “viewfinder” icon in the top-left corner...(read more)

15 Beautiful HTML5 Apps

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:13:00 GMT

Had a great time here at FOWA (Future of Web Applications) today. To those of you that asked – here’s a list of all the demo I showed today in my “Build with HTML5” session. Thanks to all the partners, developers, designers, pop...(read more)

Learning HTML5 from Disney Tron:Legacy Digital Book

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:01:07 GMT

Try at: http://disneydigitalbooks.go.com/tron/ Thanks to the amazing teamwork of Disney and Vectorform, it took just about 1 month to build the new Disney TRON: Legacy Digital Book Site , an immersive HTML5 experience built on top of Internet Explorer...(read more)

Unlocking the power of HTML5 audio

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:58:31 GMT

Sounds form the background of our life. Today the HTML5 <audio> element enables Web developers to embed sounds in their applications. The flexibility of the control coupled with the integration with the rest of the platform allows several scenarios...(read more)

Developer thoughts on IE9 RC–Video

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:09:24 GMT

I had the pleasure to work with some really bright web developer and designer in the last months, building some of the most exciting and inspiring HTML5 application . Thank you all!...(read more)

My TOP 5 features in IE9 RC

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:54:55 GMT

Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate is now available for download here . There are many news, from new HTML5 features to enhanced performance, from state-of-the-art security to redesigned user experience . Here’s my TOP 5: 1 – W3C Geo-location Standard...(read more)

Typeface upside down text in IE9

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:06:15 GMT

Good news for developers. If you are using an older version of the typeface library, you might have seen the text upside-down on IE9 Beta – due to some bug in the library itself. The latest version (v0.15) include fixes to these bugs and now fully supports...(read more)

Building great browsers together

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:35:40 GMT

Building a great browser is complex; this is valid for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari and any other browser out there. When we started the planning of IE9, we decided to offer more visibility to developers over the progress of the platform...(read more)

Tip: How to encode a video to H.264 (MP4) or VP8 (Webm)

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:12:03 GMT

I don’t know what language you talk today , but if you are looking for a simple and free tool to convert videos to H.264 (.mp4) or VP8 (.webm), here’s a quick tip. Install VLC Media Player On the menu, click “Media->Convert/Save” Under the “File Selection...(read more)

Pirates Love Daisies: HTML5 Lessons Learned

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:59:26 GMT

As announced on the Windows blog this morning, today Pirates Love Daises - a new HTML5 tower defense game - has been released! Grant Skinner, the leader of the team that built the game, reported his experience on his blog . He shared some interesting...(read more)

The battle begins!

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:20:14 GMT

Coming on Friday Dec 17 10AM PST… http://www.pirateslovedaisies.com/...(read more)

HTML5 Snow falling on my blog

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:41:00 GMT

Based on an interesting script of David Flanagan to generate a snow flake using recursive JavaScript and HTML5 <canvas>, I had some fun during the weekend and added some snow to my blog. David’s implementation is based on several canvas...(read more)

Is Chrome 4 the next IE 6?

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:58:00 GMT

“HTML5” is huge . Different specifications are at different status: First Public Working Draft, Working Draft, Candidate Recommendation, Proposed Recommendation, and lastly Recommendation. As we stated many times before, it’s important to make it right...(read more)

Next stop of the HTML5 tour: China!

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:52:00 GMT

Leaving Seattle’s “snow and fun” behind, I will have the pleasure to visit China in the next few days. If you are attending TechEd Beijing , make sure to come saying nihao to myself and Vittorio ! Happy Thanksgiving!...(read more)

Deep Dive into “HTML5”

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:20:04 GMT

How do I develop using Canvas, SVG, CSS3? What’s new in JavaScript? In this deep dive you will learn how to use HTML5 and how new web standards help solve existing challenges on the web. Expect a lot of code, demos, and best practices! Video, Slides,...(read more)

“HTML5”: More than Just HTML5

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:30:44 GMT

This 30 minutes session (presented at the Professional Developer Conference ) focuses on the “behind the scenes” aspects of HTML5 and the efforts that Microsoft is engaged in with the W3C Working Groups. Video, Slides and Links Recorded session: Watch...(read more)

HTML5 and IE9 Presentations

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:30:00 GMT

Back from my European tour : what a great time! I had the pleasure to present in 3 different countries in just 4 days, to meet old friends and to make new one. We talked a lot about HTML5 and Web Standards, we learned about tools or techniques to improve...(read more)

“Deep Dive into HTML5” European Tour

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 04:47:18 GMT

At PDC we discussed the “ behind the scenes ” of the HTML5 specification, we talked about the importance of a fast browser to enable richer scenarios and we recommended best practices for cross-browser interoperability . It’s now time to get the...(read more)

What is “HTML5”?

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:30:00 GMT

A short answer could be “the future of the Web”. Enough? No, especially if you are a developer. I answered more in detail this question at PDC (links below). Here’s just one slide, where I tried to summarize what’s behind the “HTML5” term. HTML5...(read more)

Announcing HTML5 X-Icon Editor

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:00:00 GMT

Along with all the other announcements, today I’m very happy to announce the X-Icon Editor , an HTML5 application that allows you to create high resolution icons . I’ll be honest: I love this tool. Let me show you why. First of all, what...(read more)

jQuery UI Mouse (Slider and Drag&Drop) Bug in IE9

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:34:49 GMT

Quick tip: if you are using jQuery UI with IE9, you might hit an issue today. There is in fact a code bug (of the series “ do feature, not browser detection ”) in the jQuery.UI.Mouse module, which is used by the Slider control or by other drag&drop...(read more)

IE9 turns Facebook into a Windows 7 application

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:40:33 GMT

Did you know that you can now turn Facebook into a Windows application? Using Internet Explorer 9, you can drag&drop any url to the Taskbar …and the site will become automatically a Windows application! The chrome of IE will adapt to the Facebook...(read more)

Building High Resolution Favicons in HTML5 and IE9

Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:14:19 GMT

One of my favorite features of IE9 is the possibility to turn any web site into a Windows application and “pin” it to the Windows 7 Taskbar . To make it beautiful, you can also build high resolution fav icons (e.g. 64x64 pixels). How? Some folk at Avarice...(read more)