Presenter: Israel Hilerio, Ph.D., Principal Program Manager

Video

• Win7 Taskbar Overview

• taskbar button
• overlay icons
• jump list, static and dynamic
• thumbnail taskbar

• Pinned Sites (16:15)

• Goals

• closer relationship between users and their favorites sites
• Allow web sites to promote their brand outside of the browser
• Seamless integration of web site into desktop experience
• Web sites interact with users like Windows applications
• Web sites control the user interaction and navigation
• Available to any website

• Demo: Google

• pinning – branded experience
• favicon becomes home page link

• Pinning a site to the Taskbar

• all pinning is user initiated

• no public api’s for pinning

• Two ways to pin a website

• Tear off a tab, and drop it on taskbar
• Drag the favicon from the address bar to taskbar

• After a site is pinned

• buttons match favicon colors
• favicon becomes a navigate-to-home button

• Customizing Pinned Sites

• using msSiteMode API’s web developers are able to integrate their pinned site with Win7 taskbar
• Divided into 2 groups

• site properties which are applicable to any user
• information that is dynamic in nature, or specific to an individual user

• Demo, 23:55

• Bing pinned, static jump list

• Site properties applicable to any user

• application name
• desktop tooltips
• start URL
• pinned site window size
• back and forward button colors
• supported in all doc modes

• Jump List Categories
• Overlay Icons

• if you go to another site, overlay icon can remain. So, it’s a good practice to clear them when you start.
• closing browser does clear overlay

• Thumbnail Toolbar buttons

• realtime communicate between the page and your desktop

• Demo: Ch9 Podcast player
• Flashing toolbar button
• Limitations on Jump List Tasks, Jump List Categories, Thumbnail Toolbar buttons
• Feature detection – the mature way of checking on sitemode enabled/capable browser