Giorgio Sardo Blog
Senior Director of Windows, Windows Phone & XBOX Technical Evangelism & Development at Microsoft Corporation
Around the World with a Browser
From Build to FOWA (Future of Web Apps) in London to TechEd China in Beijing: thank you all for your...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 10/24/2011
Getting Rid of IE6: Check.
Check your score at https://www.ie6countdown.com Time to move on...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 10/23/2011
Bing Maps add support for HTML5 Geolocation
Bing Maps is the first online service that provides geolocation support to all desktop and mobile...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 08/07/2011
15 Beautiful HTML5 Apps
Had a great time here at FOWA (Future of Web Applications) today. To those of you that asked –...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 06/28/2011
Learning HTML5 from Disney Tron:Legacy Digital Book
Try at: https://disneydigitalbooks.go.com/tron/ Thanks to the amazing teamwork of Disney and...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 06/12/2011
Unlocking the power of HTML5 audio
Sounds form the background of our life. Today the HTML5 <audio> element enables Web developers...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 06/12/2011
Developer thoughts on IE9 RC–Video
I had the pleasure to work with some really bright web developer and designer in the last months,...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 02/10/2011
My TOP 5 features in IE9 RC
Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate is now available for download here. There are many news, from...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 02/10/2011
Typeface upside down text in IE9
Good news for developers. If you are using an older version of the typeface library, you might have...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 01/20/2011
Building great browsers together
Building a great browser is complex; this is valid for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera,...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 01/14/2011
Tip: How to encode a video to H.264 (MP4) or VP8 (Webm)
I don’t know what language you talk today, but if you are looking for a simple and free tool to...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 01/13/2011
Pirates Love Daisies: HTML5 Lessons Learned
As announced on the Windows blog this morning, today Pirates Love Daises - a new HTML5 tower defense...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 12/17/2010
The battle begins!
Coming on Friday Dec 17 10AM PST… https://www.pirateslovedaisies.com/
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 12/14/2010
HTML5 Snow falling on my blog
Based on an interesting script of David Flanagan to generate a snow flake using recursive JavaScript...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 12/13/2010
Is Chrome 4 the next IE 6?
“HTML5” is huge. Different specifications are at different status: First Public Working Draft,...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 12/08/2010
Next stop of the HTML5 tour: China!
Leaving Seattle’s “snow and fun” behind, I will have the pleasure to visit China...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 11/25/2010
Deep Dive into “HTML5”
How do I develop using Canvas, SVG, CSS3? What’s new in JavaScript? In this deep dive you will learn...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 11/22/2010
“Deep Dive into HTML5” European Tour
At PDC we discussed the “behind the scenes” of the HTML5 specification, we talked about the...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 10/31/2010
What is “HTML5”?
A short answer could be “the future of the Web”. Enough? No, especially if you are a developer. I...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 10/28/2010
Announcing HTML5 X-Icon Editor
Along with all the other announcements, today I’m very happy to announce the X-Icon Editor, an...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 10/28/2010
jQuery UI Mouse (Slider and Drag&Drop) Bug in IE9
Quick tip: if you are using jQuery UI with IE9, you might hit an issue today. There is in fact a...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 09/21/2010
IE9 turns Facebook into a Windows 7 application
Did you know that you can now turn Facebook into a Windows application? Using Internet Explorer 9,...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 09/16/2010
Building High Resolution Favicons in HTML5 and IE9
One of my favorite features of IE9 is the possibility to turn any web site into a Windows...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 09/16/2010
The Endless Mural
Joshua Davis, Branden Hall, Eric Fickes and Ben Arditti: these are the talents that today are...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2010
Beautiful Things are going to happen on 9/15
After a period of “super-secret activities” that if you know I would be in trouble….I’m back! I’ve...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 09/13/2010
Expression SuperPreview adds support for Safari on MAC
In a previous post I talked about Expression Web SuperPreview, a tool that facilitate the...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 06/08/2010
HTML5 and bad example of “same markup”
From the Apple website: Every new Apple mobile device and every new Mac — along with the latest...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 06/04/2010
Using Facebook and IE8?
If so, you might really like one of these extensions! Btw, who is The Stig?
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 03/14/2010
Coming next…
I’ve been fairly quiet on this blog in the last weeks, since I’ve been working on super-awesome...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 03/12/2010
IEAK 8 for Windows 7
The IE8 IEAK (Internet Explorer Administrator Kit) allows you to create, deploy and manage...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 02/06/2010
Other demos of new dev features in IE8
In my recent posts, I talked about some of the new Web Standards available with Internet Explorer 8....
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 02/04/2010
IE8 and HTML 5
In the previous post, I showcased the Microsoft commitment to an open and interoperable Web by...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 11/29/2009
IE8 and Web Standards
In my previous posts, I mentioned my trip around the world. In this and the next few posts, I’d like...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 11/29/2009
IE9 super-fast and super-standard
PDC, Los Angeles. 11/18 of a sunny morning. Steven Sinofsky, Windows President of Microsoft Corp,...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 11/18/2009
Back from Australia and New Zealand: Thanks!
In the last weeks I had the pleasure to travel to Australia and New Zealand and spend some time with...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 09/28/2009
ASP.Net Controls for IE8 released!
I’m happy to announce we just released a Web Application Toolkit for Internet Explorer 8! The goal...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 09/24/2009
Most Secure Browser: Internet Explorer 8
NSS Labs, a trusted advisor to the information security community, released today two new Web...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 08/12/2009
Windows 7 E
If you are working in Europe and you are using the WebOC or WebBrowser control in your applications,...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 07/13/2009
IE8 Web Slice and Silverlight (e.g. Imagine Cup)
7/21/09 - UPDATE: Added Source Code (see bottom) With Internet Explorer 8 it’s easy to build...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 06/29/2009
Glue and IE8
Adaptive Blue recently released the Glue Toolbar for Internet Explorer 8. Glue helps you...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 06/14/2009
H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) Web Slice step-by-step
Creating Web Slices is extremely easy and fast, and at the same time it can provide amazing results....
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 05/01/2009
How to detect IE8 using JavaScript (Client side)
A question I’ve been asked recently is “How can I detect IE8 using JavaScript?”. There are several...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 04/14/2009
IE8 New Features Developer Guide
You’ve seen the new IE8 features on a website, on a video, on the IE Gallery, on Channel9, on a...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 04/08/2009
Internet Explorer 8 Free Virtual Labs
Internet Explorer 8 brings a lot of new features to web developers. Check out these free Virtual...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 04/03/2009
MSN Video IE Accelerator Tutorial
You’ve probably already seen how Internet Explorer 8 Accelerators allow you to perform searches very...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 04/03/2009
The History of the web video
If you missed the funny Internet Explorer 8 video at MIX, you can watch it again here…together with...
Author: Giorgio Sardo [MSFT] Date: 03/26/2009