Bing enables HTML5 home page in the US

By Kip Kniskern on September 23, 2011 12:32 AM

13 comments

Well, it’s a start anyway. Tonight, Bing (and yes, in the US only) has enabled an HTML5 video on the home page, a time lapse video of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming:

As usual, the home page image changed at midnight, but for this first day of autumn, US Bing users get a bit of a special treat (as long as they’re using an HTML5 enabled browser, of course).

A post on the Bing Search blog has some more information, and this short video featuring Stephanie Horstmanshof, Managing Editor for the Bing home page.

From what we can tell, none of the other HTML5 features supposedly coming to Bing have been enabled, so we’ll have to make do with a pretty cool home page for now. According to Horstmanshof, Bing will not run a new video every day, but to mark special occasions, or when they have a special video to share.

Posted in Bing, Featured | Tags: Bing, Home Page, HTML5

Comments

Pramil

awesome
http://lexusyuen.wordpress.com/ Lexus Yuen

lack of information about the element(s) shown in the video just like the image.

Fred A.

Huh? What information are you talking about? If you are talking about the hotspots, they are there in the static page. The video, not so much.

http://twitter.com/Andrew_ww Andrew W

I have no hotspots anymore on the Bing Canada homepage. They were there until about a week or so ago.
http://lexusyuen.wordpress.com/ Lexus Yuen

Yes, I mean the hotspots in the static image.

John Ptacek

Kinda surprised, the HTML 5 version of Bing isn’t displayed on the Win 8 tablets from build. You just get a static image

Fred A.

Maybe the Win8 TB’s aren’t HTML5 capable yet. After all, they are just preview builds. Which means you are working with a product that is not for productivity so it won’t come with all the bells and whistles. I could be wrong though…

Anonymous

This is why they are losing so much money on Bing: they randomly change some parts of the UI, introducing cool technology, building some fancy things but they never change and improve the fundamentals. Bing Maps still doesn’t show anything than streets in most markets around the world, no businesses, no interesting places, no 3D buildings, no information about public transport, no navigation, no traffic …

john

Because they are not only spending money on the website, but integration deals, apps, etc. I mean take a look at Android. Its like one giant integration scheme for Google, but they lose a lot of money on it.

Gaining marketshare costs money. Especially in the search engine market, since most people could care less about switching. Its just a utility to them, its not exciting.

Fred A.

I was very surprised when I opened up IE9 on my business system (Win7 Ultimate). Got the static page on my personal system (XP HE-IE8), which is nice.

With the video, I wish they can incorporate the hotspots…
I have to agree that displaying video only for special occasions is the right way to go.

Google has the doodle and now Bing has the video.

Absolutely awesome. Keep up the great work Bing Team!
Lbastie

Magnificent. Strory #1 in the blogs today
Bob

I love it!

If you want it on your Desktop as a Gadget (nice if you have a 24″ or so) try:
http://bingpic.codeplex.com/
Mctmclaughlin

todays image Oct 4, with moving clouds and stars - is giving me motion sickness.

Please consider this in the future.

Thank you!

Mary

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