Microsoft celebrates the death of version 6 of its Internet Explorer browser — IE6 usage in the U.S. has now dropped below 1%, which means more websites can drop support for the antiquated browser. If we haven’t already ended support for IE6, and halted the implementation of all the hacks and workarounds — we can now put IE6 on the low priority list or end support entirely, saving hours of work for web developers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16408850
Designing or re-creating your websites so they behave more like native applications is an older concept that is realizing some true potential lately. The ability to serve up applications that live more natively on your computer, offer your customers a much more intuitive, integrated, and effective experience — leading to a much higher amount of traffic and time-spent on your brand. Browser makers approach this concept differently — Google Chrome has opted for a marketplace where users download and install Web apps as a separate experience to their website. Microsoft Internet Explorer has Pinned Sites, a set of features that make users feel like they have a native app experience. Mozilla Firefox has been experimenting with Prism, a native app that users install to launch websites directly.
Even though IE9 is relatively new, and I work on a MAC primarily, we have been exploring Pinned Sites.
You can find out all about it at http://buildmypinnedsite.com/
There is also a jQuery plugin to help make things easier http://plugins.jquery.com/project/pinify
It is a very good execution of how integrated websites that act like native applications, can work very well. So make sure to check it out, and learn how to design and develop native applications that blur the lines between the browser and the desktop.
Facebook is promoting itself as an Ad platform with the launch of Facebook Studio. It looks like Facebook is giving marketers a glimpse into what can be done on their platform for brands, and the advertising and marketing of a brand’s goods and services. It highlights some high quality social marketing campaigns on Facebook, and looks to be a great place to go and see what is happening in that area of social marketing — could this be a door into some other facebook strategy ? Check it out for yourself.
Maybe Google one up’d facebook, or maybe it’s +1. The ‘like’ buttons around the web from facebook proved to be a pretty good idea. The Plus One from Google seems to be similar at first look, but it’s actually much more. It looks like something we will be using to better spread our client’s work. Have a look at the video below:
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