Sessions at Web Directions Unplugged about Internet Explorer

Thursday 12th May 2011

• The desktop and the browser

  by Ziad Ismail and Lloyd Hilaiel

  The browser is becoming less and less of a stand alone app, and more and more integrated into the desktop. In this session, Ziad Ismail from the Internet Explorer team, and Lloyd Hilael from Mozilla look at how projects at Mozilla and microsoft are blurring the distinction, and where the browser is headed on the desktop.

  The Web Beyond the Browser

  There is a lot of discussion about browsers, but ultimately users care about sites and experiences. The browser is just a means to an end. What happens as the web moves beyond the browser? We’ll share how sites have started innovating with Pinned Sites in IE9 and IE10. We’ll discuss how we believe this trend will accelerate as the web become a core part of more and more devices.

  The Mozilla Chromeless Project

  The “Chromeless” project experiments with the idea of removing the current browser user interface and replacing it with a flexible platform which allows for the creation of new browser UI using standard web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

  Instead building a whole new platform, we suggest that the web itself should be the platform. That a developer could design the browser using standard web technologies combined with a minimal set of new APIs to interact with the underlying operating system and control the application’s user interface. This new functionality is exposed as lightweight conventions on top of the DOM and javascript modules exposed via the CommonJS packaging standard.

  • Internet Explorer
  • Mozilla

  At 2:40pm to 3:35pm, Thursday 12th May