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MIX08 Day 1: The Keynote

Wednesday, 5 March 2008 10:19 by joelevi

While you're at MIX08, go grab the Flotzam screensaver to aggregate all your vital MIX08 data into a really cool app and/or screen saver (use MSIE if you want it to install right). It's kinda like last year's, but cooler.

Ray Ozzie's Keynote: Content, Commerce, Community

If you'd like to watch the keynote streamed live, here's your link: Watch the Live Streaming Keynote- Ray Ozzie, Dean Hachamovitch, and Scott Guthrie
We've come a long way since MIX07, .net 3.5, IronRuby, IronPython, VS2008, an of course, there's Yahoo! (laughter)
MIX08 is a key launch milestone

Gotta get yourself connected

deeply embrace advertising, link, tag, DIGG, discuss - social media and social networking

community
$40B spent in online advertising /year today; projected to grow to $80B in the next 3 years
"group forming aspects of the web", ranking-linking-tagging will become analogous to file-edit-view

PCs are fading as a "personal collection" of connected devices is rising
"Providing the power of choice as the enterprise embraces the cloud"
Utility Computing Structure will reshape enterprise computing models as it's pushed into the cloud (Enterprise Data Center and the cloud)
We as developers need to embrace a collection of small pieces loosely connected, loosely coupled compositions
Transparency, interoperability, ... of applications/services/offerings

Connected entertainment

MS plans to make any media licenses available on your many devices (media center, XBOX360, Windows Mobile phone, Zune, etc.)
Should be able to play your subscriptions wherever you are

Connected productivity

Office Live
Office Mobile
Office Live Workspace (just went beta yesterday) -- won't hear more about this until later in 2008
Sharepoint, Exchange, Outlook Communicator, ...

Connected business

CRM
Utility
SQL Server Data Services (Nigel Ellis will talk about this in a breakout session)

Connected development

joining designers and developers
.net frameworks
SIlverlight

Scott Guthrie's Keynote

Standards Based Web Development

.NET 3.5
VS2008
IIS7
Windows Server 2008 (SP1)
Data access (linq)
AJAX
JavaScript debugging

Looking forward

ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET AJAX
ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (Dean Hachamovitch)

First (official) public view, download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1A2E3DDD-B38B-439D-BBA7-F179A5D3ECAF&displaylang=en
I gotta get an "eight" t-shirt!! Sweet!
"Daddy, did you guys break the web?"
Developers are the people that spend all their time making the web that all of use

why does this work differently in different browsers
the web gets better when developers can spend less time getting things to just work and more time innovating

8 topics

CSS2.1 in the final product

Differences between browsers wastes too much developer's time
W3C 68 active working groups
wrote a new layout component for CSS2.1

CSS Certification

interoperability has many challenges

ambiguity
interoperability is sometimes not required by the standard (doh!)
contributing 702 working cases (under the BSD licenses) that are open to developer comment to ensure that MS/IE8 is interpreting the standards the way the developers are using expecting it to

IE8 will ship in the most standards-compliant way that it can

if you "broke the web" by using MSIE7's quirks, you can add a tag to tell it to do just that
click on the IE7 emulate button in IE8 to see how it's rendered in IE7

Performance

'nuff said

HTML5

hash functionality to help the browser understand the "back button" should work, even on an AJAX'd page
The page can see connection events so you can write a page aware of network connectivity (presenting a message, changing a "post" button to a "save" button that will automagically send the data on the next connect)

Developer tools

there's a button now to bring up your tools

script debugging with watches and breakpoints
can select part of the page and see where the element lands in the object model, and then see how it's styled (including where the element is inheriting from); can group by style type; can apply or un-apply styles on the fly

Activities

select some text, go to the activity indicator and pull up context sensitive information (eBay, Live Maps, StumbleUpon, etc.)

simple XML to make an activity search (OpenService Format Specification)
isn't this just a new version of Intellisense or SmartTags?
where is MicroFormat support?

WebSlices

just that, a context-sensitive slice of a web page related to the one you're on, with a purple indicator (similar to the RSS indicator)
code looks very much like MicroFormats
WebSlices Specification
CreativeCommons Public Domain license

Beta 1 available after the keynote

http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie8/

Silverlight

Showcase

Where was Netflix?

Currently 1.5 million installations per day
Silverlight 2

Beta 1 is available to download today (First Look at Silverlight 2 - ScottGu's Blog)
adaptive streaming will pick the right bitrate for your network and cpu and will dynamically scale this on the fly; no code to enable this; no need for the user to pick their bitrate
Multi-language support
WPF UI framework
data-binding
skinning
animation
robust networking
integrated data support (LINQ)
local cache or store (which survives browser sessions)
high performance
small download (4.3MB), fast install (6-10 seconds to install on a clean machine)
Windows and Mac available now, working with Novell for a Linux version
Lots of built-in controls

button
text box, checkbox, radio button, etc.
date picker
sliders
data grids (etc.)

Unit tests (over 2000)
skinning and customizing of built-in controls

Windows Media Services 2008

free to Server 2008 users

IIS7 Media Pack (shipped last week)

bitrate throttling
Progressive Streaming
can throttle to bust down a big chunk (say 120% of the bitrate), then keep 10 seconds ahead, so you're not paying for bandwidth that the user's not watching