Alawar announcements: HTML5 game engine, support for IE9 pinned site and browser's own build

Alawar can without exaggeration be called the largest Russian developer of casual games for a variety of platforms, including social networks. Today, I am very pleased to announce a number of announcements by Alawar and present you the novelties that the company has prepared in collaboration with Microsoft.

First of all, I am very glad to present you a video announcement of the new HTML5 engine of the company, which will be used in future Alawar projects. I think many of you will be glad to know that Alawar has joined the HTML5 gaming development camp and the development of rich applications on modern web standards. Below is the video that was first shown at TechEd Russia 2011 on the track of reports on tools and programming languages.
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Below you can find out about other announcements from Alawar: the new site with the pinning function on the Windows 7 taskbar and the assembly of the Internet Explorer 9 browser with quick access to the company's games.

New site and consolidation

Recently, a new Alawar website was introduced, which, among other things, added the function of posting a site on the Windows taskbar. The advantages that such a function gives to site owners are well described in this article : an increase in attendance of users hanging out on the site.



It looks like this: users of the site receive a notification about the possibility to fix the site on the taskbar by simply dragging the icon onto the panel:



After dragging and dropping, the user gets a view of the Alawar website as an application on the taskbar, which can be accessed at any time, including through convenient access to various sections through the functions of the Windows 7 taskbar:



And this functionality can be added to yours by anyone within a few minutes! Just go to the site http://buildmypinnedsite.com and use ready-made script templates or HTML code to add the necessary functionality. Everything is based on open standards.

Internet Explorer 9 build

Alawar, like many other companies, has long been releasing its own customized versions of Internet Explorer. They did not ignore Internet Explorer 9, the assembly of which users can download from the company's website.

The assembly is automatically offered to anyone who came to the site through Internet Explorer version 8 and below.



We are very happy to see how such a wonderful company like Alawar does cool things that are useful for users and interesting for developers.