Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Lionel Antonio Robinson

Jonathan Fred Kern

Aditi Mandal

Mario Roberto Baumann

Jane Jiyoon Park

Jon Meling

Arye Gittelman

Andreea Sandu

Srinivas Pushkar Ravipati

Bergljot Engen

Matthew Gunter Kroe

Vegard Thue Bjørlykke

Thomas Ham

Cem Aykan

Katrine Øverlie Svela

Polijana Andrijana Nincevic

Joy Seth

Ashok Kuppusamy

Yong Woo Rhee

Frederico A Mameri

Elisabeth Olson

Richard Eric Andeen

Cindy Liao

Thomas Richard Allen Ham

Technology is disclosed for selecting at least one people highlight, with respect to a person of interest, to be shown on one or more user devices. The user device is monitored to determine a user interest in a person of interest. A set of possible people highlights, with respect to the person of interest is determined. A determination is made as to whether any of the possible people highlights should be suppressed and not presented to the user on the user device. Any people highlights that were determined to be people highlights that should be suppressed and not presented are removed to create a remaining set of possible people highlights. At least one of the remaining set of possible people highlights are presented on the user device.

Intelligent selection and presentation of people highlights on a computing device

Embodiments prepare a markup language (ML) element for animation. A request to perform at least one animation on at least one ML element is intercepted or received. One or more animation preparation attribute values are defined based at least on the requested animation and current attribute values of the ML element. The ML element is altered to include the defined animation preparation attribute values, and an animation engine performs the animation of the altered ML element. The animation preparation attributes and values (e.g., style elements) may be reset, removed, or otherwise modified after animation. In some embodiments, a library of application programming interfaces (APIs) enable web browsers to request animations of legacy hypertext markup language (HTML) elements for consumption by animation engines based on JAVASCRIPT scripting or cascading style sheets (CSS).

Decomposing markup language elements for animation

Embodiments provide animations with an animation engine decoupled from an animation catalog storing animation definitions. A computing device accesses at least one of the animation definitions corresponding to at least one markup language (ML) element to be animated. Final attribute values associated with the ML element are identified (e.g., provided by the caller or defined in the animation definition). The computing device animates the ML element using the accessed animation definition and the identified final attribute values. In some embodiments, the animation engine uses a single timer to animate a plurality of hypertext markup language (HTML) elements displayed by a browser.

Animation engine decoupled from animation catalog

A cascading stylesheet (CSS) file transformed with user-selected design variables is provided. One or more CSS files may be received as a first input item, and user defined colors, fonts, layout, and images may be received as a second input item. Embodiments provide for determining if the colors and fonts selected by the user are usable and legible. User-selected color and font schemes may be modified if necessary, and a modified CSS file may be outputted to a rendering engine for rendering an aesthetically pleasing, usable, and legible web page.

Theming engine

Display screen with user interface

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