NZ IE8 Auckland barcamp2 - 12 July 2008

Slide 2: Top couple of NZ Web Sites “Census” May 2008 Including Browsers with > 1% Market Share And judging by the #’s many are still on dial up and XP SP1

Slide 3: We Have a Problem! ¼ of Kiwi’s still use IE6! = a sh*t load more than use Firefox (any version)

Slide 4: You are not the target market!

Slide 5: Intel Mac <3 % of Kiwi’s Vista = 17%

Slide 6: It’s an XP game

Slide 8: Those 5 years that you guys did nothing really hurt us!

Slide 10: It Takes On Average... 30% More Effort to Build for IE6! 5% More to Build for IE7 Source... Something I read somewhere

Slide 12: Internet Explorer 8 = Interoperability Over Compatibility Achieved through a new CSS 2.1 compliant Rendering Engine enabled by default as lobbied by Web Developers world wide.

Slide 13: Plan of Record • IE 8 Beta 1: Released at MIX in April (target audience Developers) • IE 8 Beta 2: Scheduled to release August 2008 (Broad Beta)

Slide 14: IE8 Rendering NZ Top 30 Websites Visited on average by 1.9 Million People per day Judged by me going and trying them out... Finger in the air type stuff

Slide 16: New Zealand is a long tail web development market. There are ~ 450 small web development companies in New Zealand with on average 40 websites in their portfolio = 18,000 long tail New Zealand websites that may be affected. Source... Analysis from NZ web directories & online portfolios

Slide 17: The quick stuck in time fix...

Slide 18: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

Slide 19: IE8 New Features • WebSlices – Developers can mark parts of the pages as WebSlices using the hAtom and hSlice microformat. • “Activities” – uses a simple XML format called OpenService. The main functions of an Activity are: • Preview: viewing a mini representation of the service results on hover of the Activity • Execute: opening the service in a new tab when the user clicks on the Activity • Developer Michael Kaply has created a Firefox version of Activities • Daniel Glazman has created WebChunks, a port of IE8's WebSlices feature to FireFox

Slide 20: DEMO

Slide 21: Please Help Me! Action Plan... 5)Rid New Zealand of IE6 (via XP SP3) 6)Ensure web developers embrace IE8’s new rendering engine.

Slide 22: Links • Nigel Parker - http://bit.ly/me - http://bit.ly/kiwi • http://bit.ly/ie8 - try it on your site • http://bit.ly/iecompat • http://ie8.ebay.com • Kiwi Foo discussion Feb 2008 – http://bit.ly/kiwifooie8 • Drop your comments and join the discussion at http://bit.ly/bcaie8