There’s a good chance you’ve noticed that Microsoft Edge and other popular browsers have recently been focused on improving battery life. We’ve been paying particular attention to this with Windows 10, and the response has been great. Windows users spend more than half their time on the web, so...
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the above "interactive" demo is spot on … changing the values (right side) slightly will dramatically alter the appearance of the diagram.
example: change value from "k2: -0.012" to "k2: -0.002" … don't forget to hit "enter" on keyboard to...
Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of posts from the team that built the 10k Apart contest site, exploring the process of building for interoperability, accessibility, and progressive enhancement in less than 10kB.
In the previous post in this series, I discussed my approach to CSS...
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Editor’s note: This is part two in a series of posts from the team that built the 10k Apart contest page, exploring the process of building for interoperability, accessibility, and progressive enhancement in less than 10kB.
In the previous post in this series, I talked a lot about how the 10k...
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error handling
forms
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It’s been just over a year since we first introduced Microsoft Edge, the brand new browser for Windows 10. We took a new direction, establishing Microsoft Edge as a browser for doing more on the web, with reading tools, notetaking, and Cortana built-in. We built it on top of the Universal...
Earlier this week, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update began rolling out to over 350 million Windows 10 devices. With this release, we’re proud to introduce EdgeHTML 14, the third and most significant update to the Microsoft Edge web platform since our initial release just one year ago...
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Starting with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft Edge will support the Speech Synthesis APIs defined in the W3C Web Speech API Specification. These APIs allow websites to convert text to audible speech with customizable voice and language settings. With them, website developers can add...
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Recently, we introduced Microsoft Edge’s new accessibility architecture, which inherently supports modern web standards, and provides a foundation to make the web platform more accessible than ever. To build a comprehensive ecosystem across all products and users of every ability, assistive...
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once again I have a question. This time it is about my computer in my sleeproom, that I use often for watchign series oder movies when in bed. This computer is running Windows XP and has a weird phenomena: While I watch movies/series/videos in a browser (fullscreen) and the scenes are...
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The commercial media industry is undergoing a major transition as content providers move away from proprietary web plug-in based delivery mechanisms (such as Flash or Silverlight), and replace them with unified plug-in free video players that are based on HTML5 specifications and commercial...
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Okay, so this isn't a Visual Studio Extension, but I figure cool SDK's are a good Monday fit too...
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The Link Removed made a big splash when it was announced, but since it's been a little quite. I personally wasn't following much about it because I didn't have a Sprout and you...
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Windows 10 Insider builds recently introduced support for srcset, our first step on the path to fully supporting the picture element for responsive images. In this post we’d like to share more about our initial implementation of srcset in Windows 10 and our strategy for bringing more components...
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html5
image attributes
image loading
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Today is a play and learn day. Last month at Build 2015, Microsoft Edge was introduced using a new web app/game that reimagined the age old Flight Simulator in a web world.
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What's great is that not only can you play the game, but you can learn how it...
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vorlonjs
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Web browser media experiences have advanced significantly in recent years, from the first releases of HTML5 media, through the subsequent additions of Media Source Extensions for adaptive streaming and Encrypted Media Extensions for content protection. And formats have been similarly advanced by...
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dash
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eme
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A couple of months back, we Link Removed that we had started development on Asm.js. Support for Asm.js Link Removed one of the top 10 most-requested items at the Link Removed on UserVoice since we launched it Link Removed. Since that time, we’ve made good progress, and in Windows 10 Insider...
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We recently posted “A break from the past: the birth of Microsoft’s new web rendering engine”, an in-depth look at the background and motivation behind building a new rendering engine to power Microsoft Edge. A key factor described was the ability to make a break from legacy Internet...
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My old lady has a win 7 64 bit Compaq. every morning about 5 am she browses sites like msn, yahoo, aquabit, outlook webmail. Until about 6 am. During this time 250 to 500+ MB are used. She being the only connection. I shut down all auto updates. I took all browser off but IE 11. Searched virus...
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network management
plugins
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video ads
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I've been reading some informative threads on Virtual PC etc, but still have not come to the conclusion as to which VM is best for my purposes. I have zero experience running a VM. My AMD64 bit APU is qualified. I installed Virtual PC and it appears that I must re-install from system DVD. Can...
Microsoft has launched a new site which features beautiful HTML5 content showing in detail the number of users, apps, etc behind their many services.
I think the most amazing is 18 billion hours of Xbox Live played in 2012 or 2 billion Skype minutes are used daily...