PDC10: Taking Advantage of Pinned Sites with IE9 and Windows 7
Presenter: Israel Hilerio, Ph.D., Principal Program Manager
- Win7 Taskbar Overview
- taskbar button
- overlay icons
- jump list, static and dynamic
- thumbnail taskbar
- Pinned Sites (16:15)
- Goals
- closer relationship between users and their favorites sites
- Allow web sites to promote their brand outside of the browser
- Seamless integration of web site into desktop experience
- Web sites interact with users like Windows applications
- Web sites control the user interaction and navigation
- Available to any website
- Demo: Google
- pinning – branded experience
- favicon becomes home page link
- Pinning a site to the Taskbar
- all pinning is user initiated
- no public api’s for pinning
- Two ways to pin a website
- Tear off a tab, and drop it on taskbar
- Drag the favicon from the address bar to taskbar
- After a site is pinned
- buttons match favicon colors
- favicon becomes a navigate-to-home button
- Customizing Pinned Sites
- using msSiteMode API’s web developers are able to integrate their pinned site with Win7 taskbar
- Divided into 2 groups
- site properties which are applicable to any user
- information that is dynamic in nature, or specific to an individual user
- Demo, 23:55
- Bing pinned, static jump list
- Site properties applicable to any user
- application name
- desktop tooltips
- start URL
- pinned site window size
- back and forward button colors
- supported in all doc modes
- Jump List Categories
- Overlay Icons
- if you go to another site, overlay icon can remain. So, it’s a good practice to clear them when you start.
- closing browser does clear overlay
- Thumbnail Toolbar buttons
- realtime communicate between the page and your desktop
- Demo: Ch9 Podcast player
- Flashing toolbar button
- Limitations on Jump List Tasks, Jump List Categories, Thumbnail Toolbar buttons
- Feature detection – the mature way of checking on sitemode enabled/capable browser
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