Kiril Seksenov, an Engineer on the Microsoft Edge Web Apps team, put together a great post today regarding Project Westminster Universal Windows Platform Bridges consist of a toolkit of three components: Developer tools Store ingestion processing Universal Windows Platform runtime frameworks Project Westminster gives you the ability to leverage your existing web development workflow and…
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David Catuhe (@DeltaKosh), a Program Manager on the TED team at Microsoft, has been building a set of labs for interoperable web development. The goal of this is to make sure that a website “just works”, regardless of the platform and browser you are viewing it from, mobile included. Here is a link to his…
Run this demo in the browser In the latest Windows 10 preview release, Microsoft added support for media capture APIs in our Edge browser for the first time. This feature is based on the Media Capture and Streams specification, developed jointly at the W3C by the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group and the Device APIs Working Group. Some developers may…
I’m all about web technology for writing cross platform and mobile applications. I’ve put together a list of video resources to get you off the ground with this, regardless of whether or not you’ve ever used HTML5, CSS, or JavaScript. If you can think of others that would be useful, send them my way. HTML5…
Jason Seuss, a Principal PM Manager on the Azure Media Services team gave a great overview of this on the Azure blog. I’d advise you to read my previous two blog posts to get you prepped for the actual streaming. For those of you nto familiar with the technology, I gave a 10 minute overview…
Below are some links my co-worker, David Rousset, has compiled a list of links for Microsoft’s latest notes on Spartan. Introduction to Project Spartan: “Project Spartan” in the Windows Technical Preview build 10049 which introduces the new public chrome of Spartan. Please note that “Enable experimental web platform features” will be removed from IE11 in…
This is part of an ongoing series of content that I’ll be writing about using Azure Media Services to create and consume HTML5 video. Ever want to create your own Twitch.tv-like app for livestreaming your work? How about your own YouTube-esque program for playing back your previously recorded video? With Azure Media Services, you…
I gave a talk this morning at the East Coast Game Conference about the current state of WebGL for game developers. You can find the slides here. I also spoke about asm.js and how middleware vendors like Unity and Epic are using it to power the web versions of their games. Firefox currently has the…
Update: Rob Dodson clarified a lot of my confusion with his comment below. I’ve made changes to the post to reflect his information. Thanks again for the help! Here’s the source code for my this project, and a tutorial will follow. I’m working on a silly Polymer project right now, which parses a Pokemon database…