14 DAY TRIAL // Just a day ahead of the Internet Explorer 9 Beta launch, Microsoft and the Joshua Davis Studios launched Endless Mural, the first HTML5 application designed to make the best of the new modern web standards support built into IE9. Joshua Davis Studios and the MIX Online team worked together to create Endless Mural, and now the open source framework behind the project is shared with the world.
Dubbed Okapi, the framework is set up to enable customers to put together digital, generative art based on the Canvas element in HTML5, which IE9 supports.
At the same time, Joshua Davis Studios and the MIX Online team launched a new contest set up to give users a taste of the experiences possible with HTML5 in IE9.
“Build the most brutally awesome art piece at Endless Mural as soon as possible (before December 15th).
“Joshua Davis and MIX Online will pick the two top art pieces and will award them fabulous prizes. We will be judging on aesthetic, excitement (are you sharing the contest with your friends perhaps?), being cool and pure brutality. We will not accept more than 2 submissions,” revealed a member of the Microsoft South Africa Developer and Platform Group.
Once users played enough with Endless Mural that they feel confident about their artistic abilities, they can enter the competition fairly easily.
All they need to do is “Follow @mixonline on Twitter. Go to Endless Mural and Start Drawing with an HTML5-based browser, we of course prefer IE9 beta.
“Save your drawing. Tweet the following (you can do this within) Endless Mural:
“’Hey @mixonline, I posted (title of your art piece) for the Okapi contest (http://bit.ly/okapijs) at Endless Mural: (put link to your art piece)’,” Microsoft revealed.
Participants can win either a $500 gift card or the skateboard that Joshua Davis uses himself.
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Beta is available for download here.
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Platform Preview 7 (PP7) is available for download here.