9月15日,微软在洛杉矶举办了名为“Beauty of the Web”的IE9 Beta发布会,为IE用户带来了更多的新功能已经性能改进。
此前,微软就表示,“Beauty of the Web”主要包括以下几方面:更简约、流畅的用户界面;更精美的音频、视频渲染;更人性化的使用体验;更安全可靠的浏览体验。事实证明,IE9的功能和性能表现的确非常出色。
在微软召开“Beauty of the Web”发布会的时候,微软的一系列合作伙伴出席了会议,对外展示了专为IE9重新设计的网站。
微软IE部门的副总裁Dean Hachamovitch表示,更丰富的Web体验能够更好地融合消费者桌面体验的舒适性和连贯性。
与此同时,多个微软合作伙伴还为IE9设计了专门的网站,其中包括BBC、CNN、Hulu、Vimeo和Daily Motion等,它们可以充分利用IE9所支持的HTML5、CSS3、SVG等Web标准。
下面是这54个专门为IE9进行了优化的网站:
- 1. Amazon- Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company. By integrating the pinning and Jump List features enabled by Internet Explorer 9, Amazon continues to enhance the on-line shopping experience for customers by giving them easy access to Amazon.com favorites such as Gold Box Deals and Best Sellers as well as enabling customers to manage their accounts and check the status of orders quickly and effortlessly.
- 2. Agent 008 Ball by Pixel Lab- Agent 008 Ball is an addictive game that combines billiards with the high stakes world of international espionage. Cutting edge HTML5 features (like Audio and Canvas) supported by Internet Explorer 9, combined with stunning graphics draw you in as you attempt to beat a timer and avoid the nefarious tricks of the terrorist organization CHALK.
- 3. Always Beautiful by Big Spaceship- Using the new features included in Internet Explorer 9, Big Spaceship created Always Beautiful, an interactive visualization set to music.Users manipulate colors and objects that adapt to the song's rhythm and structure. At the end of the song, the user is shown the high-resolution artwork they've created using the powerful SVG capabilities and improved JavaScript performance of Internet Explorer 9.
- 4. AP News Reader by Vectorform- The AP News Lab "Timeline Reader" is a collaboration between Vectorform and The Associated Press (AP) exploring new ways of visualizing and reading online news.We sought out to create a fully featured online reader application that showcases the beautiful high-res imagery from the AP side-by-side with a full article reading experience.
Users can browse through all of their favorite news categories simultaneously in a timeline visualization that frames the day’s events in a complete chronological sequence. The site is also a showcase of the latest advances in HTML5 and CSS3 supported in modern web browsers.
Some of the new technologies utilized were the HTML5 canvas tag to create a fast loading and snappy intro animation/splash screen, HTML5 local storage to keep track of read articles and a reading queue, and CSS3 support for embedding web fonts.
- 5. AMD Space Command- AMD Space Command is a fun game that shows the graphics acceleration of Direct2D technology in the Internet Explorer 9 browser.Shoot as many space attackers possible, and use the “GPU capacitor” to adjust the intensity of the game. AMD Space Command is built in HTML5,leveraging the GPU in your PC to improve graphics.
You can see this first hand by keeping track of the Frames Per Second (FPS) as you adjust your GPU capacitor!
- 6. BeatKeep by Archetype- Community and creativity are the driving forces behind Archetype’s BeatKeep application.BeatKeep allows drummers, musicians, and music enthusiasts to discover, create,and share beats of any genre. Through intuitive interactions and the power of HTML5 on Internet Explorer 9, BeatKeep allows users to create unique audio tracks and share them on social networks like Facebook.
- 7. Beautiful Explorer by Soleil Noir- Web is beautiful, spontaneous, ephemeral and so creative. The beauty of the web is the creative contents produced by everyday people. This website is a design trends daily overview. We hope you'll enjoy it.
- 8. BMW Vision by EMC- EMC Consulting and BMW have a created the BMW Car Configurator, a ground-breaking tool that shows off the extraordinary BMW Vision EfficientDynamics concept car.The experience relies on the high performance of Internet Explorer 9, bringing together the awesome power of Chakra, its new JavaScript engine, and GPU acceleration to enable car enthusiasts to manipulate both the car and its environment with a fluid three-dimensional feel.
- 9. Brain Power by R2Integrated and Scientific America- R2integrated developed Brain Power, a website and interactive learning tool to introduce users to the many parts of the human brain and its functionality.Brain Power uses HTML5, SVG, CSS3, and JavaScript. An animation layer produces real-time interactions with elements drawn within the HTML5 canvas.
The HTML5/CSS3 engine within Internet Explorer 9 makes full rich interactive applications practical for all new websites. In short, HTML5 and Internet Explorer 9 introduce end users to new levels of flexibility, capability, and expression.
- 10. Chinese Shadow Play by RedSAFI- Chinese Shadow Play is a traditional form of Chinese art. This demo lets users choose an iconic Chinese shadow puppets, play with puppets individually and organize the puppets in formations.This demo shows off the power of the Internet Explorer 9 Canvas by featuring a physics engine and a bones system, as well as beautiful bitmap art to create an engaging viewing experience.
- 11. Also by RedSAFI: Chinese Kite Experiment- In this demo, a user can select a kite and choose a flight pattern.The user can also add fans to the stage and add collision detection to alter the kite’s flight. This demo shows off Internet Explorer 9 Canvas performance by featuring a physics engine to create the flying environment.
- 12. Comicx Parallax by Steaw Design- As web technologies continue to evolve, we prepare to enter the age of HTML5. Created for Beauty of The Web in honor of the Internet Explorer 9 launch, “Never Mind the Bullets” offers the traditional comic strip experience enriched by parallax.With a simple movement of the mouse, the strip is animated and the story comes to life. It unfolds at LongHorn Gush, a quiet town troubled by a band of outlaws, The Red Bandanas.
However, with the arrival of the famous Bill “One Shot” Collins, things are about to change.
- 13. Cracked.com by Demand Media- Pinning Cracked.com to your task bar allows you easier access to one of the fastest growing humor sites in the world.Now all of Cracked’s award-winning content is only one click away – no matter where you are online!
- 14. DailyMotion- Dailymotion is pleased to announce the release of its new HTML5 Player Beta and Demo.This development takes advantage of the latest web standards, and permits streaming video playback without the need for plugins," said Olivier Poitrey, CTO and Co-Founder.
"We are excited to partner with Microsoft for this announcement as the new Internet Explorer 9 shows commitment to both web standards and innovation. Internet Explorer 9 sets itself apart by supporting hardware accelerated graphics and offering users a more app-like experience with their new Site Mode.
- 15. Digital News Archive (DNA) by Nave- The web site provides Korean newspapers from various publishers dates starting from 1960's to 1990's.Users can easily browse through the newspapers using simple UI. To maximize the user experience, the Canvas element was heavily utilized. With the Canvas, we could make zoom, page navigation and other transitions smooth and enjoyable for the users.
- 16. Discovery- As the world’s number one nonfiction media company, Discovery Communications is always looking for new ways to engage with our passionate fans.By building new Internet Explorer 9 functionality into Discovery.com, TLC.com and AnimalPlanet.com, we are able to give audiences even more ways to interact with and learn from their favorite TV shows and personalities.
- 17. EBay
- 18. eHow by Demand Media- eHow offers more than 2 million articles and videos, providing visitors with trusted solutions for completing life’s daily tasks or larger projects.With Internet Explorer 9, users enjoy an optimized and more dynamic eHow, a faster loading and immersive video experience - without the need for 3rd party software - plus new tools to bring relevant eHow content straight to our user’s fingertips.
- 19. Facebook - More than 500 million people actively engage with their friends on Facebook each month.With IE9, Facebook users will be able to more quickly access and manage their social activities through the browser and get back to their friends via a seamless and rich experience.
- 20. Flixster- Flixster is the largest online movie community and the leading movie application for mobile devices.Flixster is using Internet Explorer 9’s new features to give users quick and easy access to great movie content right from the desktop.
- 21. Floweroscope by LA Surprise- Floweroscope provides users with a kaleidoscope-like online artistic experience that explores the new capacities of Internet Explorer 9 to create a unique animation experience.Floweroscope provides symmetrical effects and randomly generated shapes, and the user controls the shape colors and sizes.
An HTML5-supported volume effect and the new Chakra JavaScript engine immerse the user into the experience. The Internet Explorer 9 Canvas element provides an innovative way to draw hardware-accelerated animations without plugins.
- 22. Gorillaz- Gorillaz.com has been optimised for Internet Explorer 9 to take advantage of some great new integration features with Windows 7.Fans can now drag the Gorillaz favicon to their taskbar and access it like an app. Right-clicking on the Gorillaz icon in the taskbar provides access to site features like News or the G Player.
Gorillaz fans can even personalise this list by clicking the star to save any page. Powered by HTML5, Murdoc’s Reading Room is turned into an interactive pace.
He'll talk you through it as you zoom up to the gallery wall and listen to tracks, bring up the Story So Far book off his coffee table with stunning pictures, html5 video and audio, and have a nosey look through the contents of his laptop. Click on the video to play an HTML5 video!
- 23. Hulu- Hulu on Internet Explorer 9 and Windows 7 will allow users to customize their Jump List menu with the most popular destinations on the site.To customize, users simply select the menu items in their profile page and they become accessible whenever/wherever you are on Hulu.com.
The site will also enable contextual menus on Show Pages and Watch Pages allowing users to Subscribe to shows or control their video watching experience during content playback.
- 24. IMDb- More than 100 million unique visitors per month turn to IMDb to discover which movies are coming out and decide what to watch.IMDb’s new HD Trailer Gallery utilizes HTML5 and Internet Explorer 9 hardware acceleration to dramatically enhance the trailer viewing and movie discovery experience on IMDb.
- 25. Jack & the Beanstalk, an Animated, Interactive Storybook by Clarity Consulting- The site blends fantasy and realism in custom illustrations animated by physics-based JavaScript.The GPU acceleration in Internet Explorer 9 allows for smooth rendering of animations, even when leveraging heavy physics libraries. Coupled with SVG graphics and embedded audio most are surprised to hear the entire site has been created using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.
The newly supported features of Internet Explorer 9 allows for rich interactivity without the overhead of the traditional plug-in based model.
- 26. JitterBug by Cynergy- JitterBug is a fast, fun game built exclusively in HTML5. Showing off the rich media and rendering power of Internet Explorer 9, the game challenges the player to draw lassos around fast moving bugs to unlock the Band and start the show before the time runs out.Relying heavily on Internet Explorer 9’s impressive Canvas abilities, this rich playing experience redefines what’s possible in HTML based game play.
- 27. Kaboodle- Kaboodle is the Internet’s largest social website for passionate shoppers. Kaboodle’s shopping tools allow users to add products from anywhere online to their Kaboodle lists and to share those products with others.The site’s integration with Internet Explorer 9 will provide Kaboodle community members with easy access to their personalized shopping content via a custom Jump List, ensuring that it is always just one click away.
- 28. LinkedIn- LinkedIn is an Internet platform company focused on connecting the world's professionals.The company is privately held and has a diversified business model with revenues driven from user subscriptions, advertising sales and enterprise software licensing.
The LinkedIn Web site launched in 2003 and is the largest professional networking site in the world with more than 75 million members, representing 200 countries and executives from every Fortune 500 company.
LinkedIn’s integration with Internet Explorer 9 will provide its members with one-click access to their professional network and business insights via a custom Jump List.
- 29. Live Strong by Demand Media- LIVESTRONG.COM inspires and empowers people to achieve their daily goals around living healthy.With Internet Explorer 9, users enjoy a more dynamic experience including an expanded HD video browsing and improved recipe discovery.
A newly optimized experience of the popular MyPlate food and fitness tracking application keeps users engaged in real-time.
- 30. Lost World’s Fairs by Friends of Mighty- To celebrate Internet Explorer 9’s support for the Web Open Font Format (WOFF) Jason Santa Maria, Frank Chimero, Naz Hamid, and Trent Walton have teamed up to create a series of web broadsheets for World’s Fairs that never were.Each piece uses fully live text (with some HTML5 and CSS3) to showcase what’s typographically possible on the web.
- 31. MONA (Museum Of Neverending Art) by groupeReflect- At the MONA, users work together to create the biggest online artwork ever.Everyone can create, draw, write, upload pictures, and add and alter things on the canvas. It’s a user-generated piece of art, which is constantly in motion.
Using Internet Explorer 9 technologies such as HTML5 / CSS3, WebFonts, Canvas and the new Internet Explorer 9 JavaScript Engine, MONA makes you rediscover the beauty of the web, as well as recreate it.
- 32. MySpace- MySpace Video offers music videos, full episodes of TV shows, and user generated content and creates a social environment for users to view, create and share videos with friends.In Internet Explorer 9, MySpace Video serves over 200,000 videos and UGC video clips in state of the art high-def H.264 in full compliance with HTML5. Jump Lists in Internet Explorer 9 offer quick content discovery and easy navigation.
- 33. National Museum Gallery China by NX- One of the most famous museums in China, National Museum of China (NMC) now allows visitors to explore the galleries on their feet or on the web.Internet Explorer 9’s HTML5 support is just right for this scenario: easy to develop with great flexibility, smooth video and audio playback and a fast experience with the new JavaScript engine.
- 34. Netlog- Netlog is an online platform where users can keep in touch with and extend their social network and is currently available in 37 languages and has more than 69 million members throughout Europe, and this number increases every day.Netlog is taking advantage of pinning site to the taskbar and thereby making sure users get to the activities within Netlog they care about via the Jump List.
- 35. One Day in Beijing by Toujie - One Day in Beijing provides a virtual tour of famous Beijing sites, including the Great Wall, Temple of Heaven, Beihai Park, Tian An Men, and National Stadium China (Bird Nest).These are the must-go places for anyone touring Beijing. By harnessing the power of Internet Explorer 9 and HTML5 along with the Internet Explorer 9 Canvas 2D API, we created a multitude of interactive scenarios.Users can experience flying clouds and mouse sensitive navigation, as well as other HTML 5 demos like flying kites, and piyingxi.
- 36. Photobucket- Photobucket is the premier destination for saving, sharing, searching, and creating images and video on the Web.With Internet Explorer 9, Photobucket is using Jump List, which will allow users to access both their own content and content from topical “Find Stuff” categories directly from their desktop.
- 37. Quiksilver
- 38. Red Bull by Archetype- Archetype has created a next generation global media and social experience for Red Bull.This interactive application allows users to browse Red Bull’s rich set of photos and video, dynamically surfacing content based on its popularity in social networking sites and on users' interests.
It takes advantage of HTML 5, SVG, CSS3, Jump Lists, Scaling, Audio/Video tags and custom font features and functionality offered by Internet Explorer 9 to raise the bar for interactivity and design in standards based websites.
- 39. Rough Guides by Metia- Members of this interactive community use an animated compass to navigate a map of the world; view geo-located photographs pulled from the Flickr database; and explore 200 travel experiences selected by Rough Guides.Members can also submit their own images to the community, and share favourite experiences from their online travels using Facebook, Twitter and email.
- 40. RTL- RTL Group is a house of excellent content and powerful brands, which is able to deliver its content to all media platforms worldwide and to repeat its broadcasting success story in every country while fulfilling its obligation to society.By combining pinning, Jump List and previews into the RTL experience, Internet Explorer 9 users get convenient access to the most popular RTL content.
- 41. Sohu NBA by Digital Hall nbadata.sports.sohu.com- Sohu Sports is one of the most popular interactive sports information network among sport enthusiasts.Being the NBA-licensed live video broadcast site for NBA events in China, NBA fans can access team schedules, game videos and team/player data, photos, chat rooms, voting and other interactive features. Internet Explorer 9 plus HTML 5 gives an unparalleled high performance hardware accelerated graphics and video experience.
- 42. t-online.de- This showcase is a sneak peek at the future of t-online.de.Core features are new picture and video galleries, a 360 degree view of consumer products and a fun and challenging online game, all completely realized in HTML 5.
This, as well as the implementation of the Internet Explorer’s Jump List feature, offers the user a glimpse of what a modern news website could be like when fully implementing the power and simplicity of HTML 5 in combination with the Internet Explorer’s unique way to surf the web.
- 43. The Doll Parade by Freetouch- The Doll Parade allows its users to assemble a wide variety of dolls by customizing their arms, legs, faces and apparel.Once the doll is assembled the users doll along with other creations march smoothly via an HTML5 Canvas. The experiences takes advantage of HTML 5 (Canvas), SVG and CSS3.
- 44. The Killers by SparKart- The Killers' website chronicles the band's career, and offers users a seamless browsing experience of the band’s music and video content.The website takes advantage of HTML5, Canvas & SVG across the site's panoramic landscape & internal sections, leveling the playing field in displaying content to users across multiple platforms & devices.
- 45. The Shodo by Business Architects- The Kanji Calligraphy website takes advantage of powerful new Internet Explorer 9 features to introduce users to the beautiful Japanese calligraphy known as Shodo.Even better, Kanji Calligraphy allows users to create their own calligraphy-based art work and share it on Twitter and Facebook.
This site is based on several of the features supported by Internet Explorer 9 HTML5 (canvas, video element, audio element), SVG, and WOFF.
- 46. The Wall Street Journal- WSJ.com offers breaking news coverage, real time quotes, and in-depth analysis and commentary to the business elite.Its high-end magazine, WSJ., emphasizes luxury and discerning lifestyle content. To make it easier for users to find and enjoy the content, WSJ is implementing favicons, pinning and the Jump List functionality of Internet Explorer 9 and employing HTML5 features for the visually enriched magazine.
Users can more quickly and easily access Journal content on their faster Internet Explorer 9 browsers.
- 47. TopGear.com by BBC- TopGear.com is the award-winning website of the world famous motoring entertainment brand, Top Gear.Top Gear presenters, producers, magazine team, and contributors regularly post on TopGear.com. The Cool Wall leverages the HTML5 and hardware accelerated graphics support in Internet Explorer 9 to provide amazingly smooth transitions, Deep Zoom functionality and slick video playback.
- 48. Twitter- Twitter lets you share and discover what's happening in your world. The Twitter pinned app in Internet Explorer 9 makes it easy to jump into your Twitter timeline, read and send direct messages, and more, so it's never more than a click away.
- 49. USA Today- As a part of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, USA TODAY built a multimedia project examining where things now stand in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.To build the site, we used a variety of web standards, including HTML5 video tag and several CSS3 features, that take advantage of the capabilities of cutting-edge web technologies in Internet Explorer 9.
- 50. Vodpod- Vodpod makes it easy to build your own video channel with your favorite videos from the Web, and to tune in to channels by other members who share your tastes and interests.By pinning Vodpod to the taskbar in Internet Explorer 9, users will be able to jump right to their real-time Vodpod feed, to their video collection, or to their favorite channels.
- 51. WebVizBench by Stimulant and KEXP- WebVizBench lets fans of Seattle’s non-profit radio station KEXP explore historical airplay data, while putting HTML 5's new features to the test. Sift and sort through 6+ years of music, or use the benchmark mode to see how your browser, CPU and GPU stack up against a thorough battery of DOM, canvas, typographic, SVG and video rendering tests.
- 52. XING- XING is a social network for business professionals with more than 9.6 million members worldwide.Using Internet Explorer 9 technology such as Jump Lists, XING members can perform tasks like sending messages faster than ever and also receive real-time updates about their network. This supports our XING Anywhere strategy and our efforts to provide our members with great usability.
- 53. Yahoo! Japan- Through Jump Lists in Internet Explorer 9, users of Yahoo! can enjoy the ‘People’, 'TV', 'Game/Animation', and 'Sports' categories of search ranking, and further enjoy it by switching to Yahoo! Auction, and Yahoo! Answer to see what is actively traded or discussed related to popular queries.
- 54. ZKM- “Exhibition and Archive” presents a historic online exhibition and a new experience of archival survey.The side is driven by HTML5, CANVAS, CSS3, SVG and Jump List, which allow graphically rich, standard conform applications and avoids plugins. The pure implementation supports the modern claim of “form follows function” and adds sustainability.”
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