'The Companion Web'
With more and more devices connected to the network and more screens surrounding us in our daily lives, at Microsoft they believe that it is time to that all of them work in a more integrated way. Statistics indicate that a large majority of users use more than one device at the same time, such as watching TV and checking their smartphone at the same time. The problem is that most websites are built differently for everyone and moving between the different screens means adapting to each experience.
To try to change that, Microsoft intends to fuel what they consider to be the natural evolution of the web: 'Companion Web'This new way of understanding web development aims to overcome the gap that currently exists between our devices, creating a single application or website that allows direct interaction between different screens and achieving a unique experience for everyone.
For developers, who know how expensive it is to work for each device separately, 'Companion Web' is an opportunity to reuse code that works across different devices, avoiding tedious porting tasks and adapt each site to different screen formats. For users, 'Companion Web' provides them with a fluid and natural way of combining all the devices that populate their homes, allowing them to interact from any of them with photos, videos, music or any type of content.
Microsoft has been working on these second-screen environments with Xbox SmartGlass for some time, so it knows something about it.In addition, in recent months the Internet Explorer team has collaborated with various projects that try to bring this idea of Companion Web to reality, such as DailyBurn or Mix Party .
This time they have joined Polar in a new example of the experience that Redmond pursues with Companion Web. In the demo video, Polar and the IE team show how we can be watching television and keep up to date with the opinions of other users, as well as sharing our own through a voting system that we control at all times from our smartphone. The mobile thus goes from being a separate consultation element to allowing us to control and share what we are seeing.
'Companion Web' is one more field where Microsoft spends time and effort trying to stay ahead of the near future of technology. Many times they are projects that are still far away and still to be developed to which we cannot have access, but on this occasion it is possible to try it for ourselves thanks to the available demo through the website created for this purpose.
Via | Exploring IE
