Mix08 Keynote - ScottGu
Scott talked a bit about some of the new things we'll see at Mix08
- MVC
- Dynamic Data framework
- ASP.NET AJAX Enhancements
- Internet Explorer 8
Demo of IE8 (Dean Hachamovitch) - thinking back to IE7 there was a big focus on security but there's more that could be done for developers and interoperability. Too much time spent getting basic things to work.
- CSS 2.1 support - compliance with CSS spec to ensure consistency across different browsers
- CSS Certification - comprehensive test suite required, contributed over 700 test cases to W3C
- Support for "legacy" IE content - IE7 compatibility mode - under control of developer
- Performance - big enhancements around script performance
- HTML 5 Support
- AJAX support - eg back button support
- Connection events supported - lose connection and you're warned and in the demo the submit button becomes a save button instead - very cool
- Developer Support - new debugging capabilities
- Very cool debugger demo - showing drilling down into page content, script, CSS applying dynamic changes etc
- Activities - bit like Office Smart Tags. Author activities to allow you to search, map, see a review etc of content on the page
- Described in an XML document
- eBay had their activity working within an hour exposing their API
- OpenService specification
- Webslices
- Make available portions of web page as a webslice - get added to your favourites
- Define by attributing up existing markup
- Webslices specification
- IE8 Beta 1 Available from today