We live in the era of CSS3, embeddable web fonts, & the text-shadow property, yet this is what represents IE 9’s support for web typography: <a href="http://jsdo.it/event/svggirl/img/movie/img_loading_01_en.png" rel="nofollow">http://jsdo.it/event/svggirl/img/movie/img_loading_01_en.png</a><p>If you’re going to resort to raster graphics at least do a better job hanging that apostrophe in the word “it’s”.
Don't you get it, now web pages don't require IE because it's broken and doesn't support web standards, they require IE because it's so web standard compliant that it's not compatible with any other browser!!<p>It's brilliant marketing!
That's definitely technically impressive. The thing is, though, I will never understand why people show this kind of thing off. Nobody is going to make a video like this in SVG except when they're showing off the capability of the browser - it's simply not worth the money or the time.<p>I mean, sure, it's a tech demo, and a damn impressive one at that. But what's it showing off? Those of us who know why it's technically impressive know that it's never going to be worth it to do anything of this scale. Those of us who don't don't see any difference between this and, say, a flash video.<p>Regardless of whatever it is that I'm missing, this is fantastic. I can't even imagine just how difficult this would have been to make.
I find this rather bizarre, not least for the incredibly short cartoon skirt. Who is it aimed at? Do the creators think that they will win over some mythical basement-dwelling anime-loving "nerds" (male, of course) with this campaign?<p>Is this what the marketing department thinks tech-savvy people are into?<p>EDIT: I mistakenly thought this was made by Microsoft; of course a more careful reading on my part would have made it obvious that it is not.
I love that the progress loader behaves just like windows 98 application installers do. Linear count up until object 56/107 loaded... 30 second pause... sudden jump to 80 objects loaded, and the loading UI flips out trying to catch up.<p>Microsoft is nothing if not consistent(ly bad).
Probably showing my age here, but to me it is very reminiscent of the IE4 DHTML tech demos (that's right, that's a four).<p>They were technically impressive in what they were able to achieve, but it was technology no one was ever going to (and never did to my knowledge) use.
For those wondering, the voice at the beggining is counting from one to nine in Japanese: "ichi, ni, san, shi, go, roku, nana, hachi, kyu". Probably related to the IE version progression.<p>Then says "I. E. nine ..." and I don't get the remainder.
Curious. Am I the only one who can't seem to make it work even in IE9 (Tried Ubuntu/Chromium Beta, Ubuntu/FF3.5~, Windows7/Chrome Canary, Windows7/IE9 (and Compatibility Mode, just for kicks), and Windows7/FF4). Perhaps it's just overwhelmingly more underwhelming than the fanfare? For reference, I get to the part after the video has ended and the background slides away from behind the frame. After that point, the music plays for a little while and everything else is quite frozen and non-interactive.
yeahi can't imagine why it's ie9 only. also, 10 frames per second? i can't feel that's impressive. it still looks choppy. it's not till about 15 that most people stop noticing choppyness, and really talk to me when you're doing 30 fps.