Isaac Rivera wrote:
But we CAN see how it has so far gone with .NET. No official port for
Mac. And that has been out for several years.
Yes, but .NET is realloy nice if you ask me. MS really did a good job
with the .NET framework.
Avalon will probably not be implemented for Mac at all. Nor other
platforms (OSes) which means it will not be a realistic platform for
web, as opposed to Flash... or Java.
At the PDC last month MS announced something different:
'Another interesting announcement here at PDC is that Microsoft is
creating a subset of their cool, fancy pants UI layer (formerly
code-named Avalon, now WPF) on other platforms, including the Mac! In
fact, one of the demos involved showing vector graphics rendered in
Safari using a Microsoft plug-in.
This subset, called WPF/E, will be powered by XAML (their XML dialect
for representing the UI) and JavaScript. Sound familiar? Yes, that's
right -- Microsoft also announced a Dashboard clone for Windows Vista.
Interesting..."
"Microsoft will never port .NET to other major operating systems, but to
have a subset of Avalon available on other platforms is a bit of a
curveball. In fact, in light of Firefox and Safari's upcoming support of
SVG and Canvas (and in the future, 3D functionality), this move makes
sense; Microsoft wants to provide their own proprietary solution to cut
off this new cross-platform initiative." (source:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/javaben/archive/2005/09/avalon_everywhe.html)
This really sounds positive, don't you think? XAML is nice.
Isaac
On Oct 9, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Weyert de Boer wrote:
Yes, but it's not sure how the Avalon stuff will be implementated
for the MacOSX. It's only known it will be implementated for Avalon.
If I recall directrly it's not /even/ known which parts of Avalon
_will_ be supported under MacOSX. Oh well, this is so 2006 ;-) No
need to talk about this any further -- we just don't know it yet.
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