Well, too bad you won't give it a spin. I forgot to mention that the WPF/E Beta has runtimes for Internet Explorer and Firefox on the PC, and for the MAC. Linux runtimes will follow within a year. Makes me wonder how much more effort the FF people will want to put into SVG now that they have this WPF/E stuff.
I have been a SVG fan for a long time, but not because it was an Open Standard spec'd by comittee. I am a fan of SVG because of what it can do for me and my customers. I am a fan because of it's declarative nature, elegant schema, rich feature set, and scriptable DOM. So by extension I am a fan of this WPF/E stuff too. Same model. It has nothing to do with blinders or gullibility or that Bill Gates invented the Web, Cellular Telephone, and Transistor or whatever else he invented. Kevin --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nup, I'm not the least bit interested in that. Another proprietary > model for delivering "rich web apps"? no thanks. > > I can't believe *anyone*, except die-hard and blinkered M$ fans, can want this. > > Sounds like they ought to be able to support SVG using this stuff > though, and pretty easily I'd have thought. Clearly they understand > the problem space well enough. What's lacking, as always with M$, > is the will to give support to a technology they can't own. > It's my fervent hope that sooner or later this will bring about > their demise, however, breathless announcements about how "cool" > stuff like this is indicates to me that M$ are as good as ever at > spinning a line for the gullible. They'll have everyone believing > they invented the web all over again. > > Let's hope this goes the way of "Microsoft Network", and they are > eventually forced to throw their lot in with the rest of humanity, > instead of reinventing everything as their own. > > Guy > > On 05/12/2006, at 6:56 AM, kggsystem wrote: > > > WPF/E is much more closer to SVG than the full fledged WPF, in that it > > runs "loose markup" with a scripting model, in a browser. The Full > > Fledged WPF really requires a compilation step before it is very > > useful. > > > > SVG Model > > > > 1) User in Browser points to an URL that might be HTML and/or SVG. > > 2) Files (HTML, SVG, JS, CSS) are returned, rendered, and the scripts > > are activated. Javascript can manipulate the SVG DOM to do stuff > > 3) User is in Business > > > > WPF/E Model > > > > 1) User in Browser points to an URL that might be HTML and/or XAML. > > 2) Files (HTML, XAML, JS) are returned, rendered, and the scripts are > > activated. Javascript can manipulate the WPF/E DOM to do stuff > > 3) User is in Business > > > > Check it out, you might find it interesting > > > > Kevin > > > > > > > > ----- > > To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -or- > > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit > > my membership" > > ---- > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
