Hello folks, I was reading the June 2005 issue of APC (Australian Personal Computer) magazine which has a cover story on unique features built into the long-awaited Windows "Longhorn" OS including the Avalon presentation system/user interface. This section really got me thinking:
"The most important difference between Avalon and the current Windows display architecture is that Avalon is vector based. The vector structure allows scalable graphics (windows, fonts & icons), meaning designers can specify shapes and objects onscreen instead of mapping elements using pixels and x/y coordinates. In a nutshell, Avalon means developers are now free to code without considering the resolution of users' monitors. This ensures that apps developed in this environment will work on just about any display, from mobile phones and PDAs to wide-screen notebooks and high-end desktop systems". What does all this mean for the web standards community? Am I reading too much into this by thinking this is a seismic shift in the way we could be building websites in the future? In particular - what are the implications in the XHTML/CSS path versus something like Flash? I searched the archives and no-one seems to have asked this question to the list before? What are peoples thoughts...? Regards PAUL ROSS SkyRocket Design Co http://www.skyrocket.com.au ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
