Ronan,
Avalon is now Windows Presentation Framework.
The link didn't have much meat about why the Macromedia CEO isn't scared of
Sparkle, I note. I wonder if he had a solid-fronted podium so that the
audience couldn't see his knees knocking? :)
Andrew Watt
In a message dated
Mini-oops!
I should have said that Avalon is now Windows Presentation Foundation.
Andrew Watt
In a message dated 21/10/2005 11:57:18 GMT Daylight Time,
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Ronan,
Avalon is now Windows Presentation Framework.
The link didn't have much meat about why the
Andrew,
[irrelevant] WPF. s/P/T/ ? ;-)
Well, it was a keynote. The future is great. Everything is fine. I agree,
there was not much meat. Maybe the keynote transcript is published somewhere
with more...? If so, I am sure our MM friends will happily pass it on to us.
This is obviously a
At 07:25 AM 10/21/2005, Ronan wrote:
I wonder increasingly if our little world won't realign itself from SVG vs MM
to SVG + MM vs WMF.
I think if I were calling the shots for Adobe I would make SVG and
Flash as allied and integrated as possible. If I were calling the
shots for Microsoft, I
Perhaps it's optimistic of me, but I keep thinking that one of the goals of
SVG was to be a vector-graphics interchange format. Not a Flash-killer, not
a Sparkle-desparkler, but as an open-standard shared medium that IDEs for
each could export to.
Sure, there are features that are specific to
My view has been that SVGs potential is not as a Flash killer, but
but a way to create documents that get the best out of XHTML, PDF and
Flash - a very effective way to present information efficiently,
appropriately and gracefully, which none of these three formats do
now .
What is wrong with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The link didn't have much meat about why the Macromedia CEO isn't scared of
Sparkle, I note. I wonder if he had a solid-fronted podium so that the
audience couldn't see his knees knocking? :)
People were actually walking around on the stage, no podium. ;-)
(I
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