Gerald Bauer
2004-10-27 18:16:25 UTC
Hello,
Fritz Onion reports in a blog story titled "The end of the internet"
on the keynote speech giving by Chris Anderson (Microsoft) at the
Win-Dev Boston developer conference.
Fritz writes:
Chris Anderson of the Avalon team at Microsoft gave an interesting
keynote presentation this morning at Win-Dev here in Boston (well,
technically Quincy, Mass.). It was entitled 'the end of the internet'
and was oriented around the evolution and growing acceptance of 'smart
clients' (a term for which he profusely apologized, but for which he
had no substitute :), finishing up with a compelling demo of a XAML
application being hosted in both a desktop window and a browser. I'd
seen these features before, but it was an interesting approach to show
the evolution from 1.1 WinForm clients through Whidbey, and Longhorn.
Anyway, the coolest part of his talk was his slide deck. It looked
innocently like a PowerPoint presentation, but if you watched closely,
there was a rotating graphic in the background, slowly moving up,
back, left, and right on each slide, so the entire slide had the
impression of movement. It was subtle, and you really had to look to
see it. When he decided to edit the content of one of his slides in
mid-stream, he had his monkey (Ian Griffiths) open not PowerPoint but
notepad and edit the source file for the presentation - which was of
course XAML! His whole slide deck was just a XAML app using page
navigation (I believe) - a very nice touch.
Source: http://pluralsight.com/blogs/fritz/archive/2004/10/26/3004.aspx
What's your take? Do you agree with Chris Anderson that Windows &
XAML will rule and that the end of the internet is nigh?
- Gerald
PS: To add some background info. Here's a quote from Chris Anderson:
We are past the world of generating static snapshots of display and
blasting them down to a client.
My not-to-hidden agenda here is simple - dynamic applications should
be dynamic on the client. The server should send data - either through
web services, database access, or any other wire protocol - and the
client should consume that data and generate UI. The model of a server
trying to generate the correct display for a client is just broken.
I'm a bit confused by the concern that Microsoft is somehow trying to
threaten or take over the web with the introduction of a markup
language to program Windows applications. XAML is a new programming
model for the next release of Windows, code named "Longhorn". That's it.
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Gerald Bauer
Rich Client Conference (RichCon) 2005 - http://richcon.com
XUL News Wire - http://xulnews.com
United XAML - http://unitedxaml.org
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Fritz Onion reports in a blog story titled "The end of the internet"
on the keynote speech giving by Chris Anderson (Microsoft) at the
Win-Dev Boston developer conference.
Fritz writes:
Chris Anderson of the Avalon team at Microsoft gave an interesting
keynote presentation this morning at Win-Dev here in Boston (well,
technically Quincy, Mass.). It was entitled 'the end of the internet'
and was oriented around the evolution and growing acceptance of 'smart
clients' (a term for which he profusely apologized, but for which he
had no substitute :), finishing up with a compelling demo of a XAML
application being hosted in both a desktop window and a browser. I'd
seen these features before, but it was an interesting approach to show
the evolution from 1.1 WinForm clients through Whidbey, and Longhorn.
Anyway, the coolest part of his talk was his slide deck. It looked
innocently like a PowerPoint presentation, but if you watched closely,
there was a rotating graphic in the background, slowly moving up,
back, left, and right on each slide, so the entire slide had the
impression of movement. It was subtle, and you really had to look to
see it. When he decided to edit the content of one of his slides in
mid-stream, he had his monkey (Ian Griffiths) open not PowerPoint but
notepad and edit the source file for the presentation - which was of
course XAML! His whole slide deck was just a XAML app using page
navigation (I believe) - a very nice touch.
Source: http://pluralsight.com/blogs/fritz/archive/2004/10/26/3004.aspx
What's your take? Do you agree with Chris Anderson that Windows &
XAML will rule and that the end of the internet is nigh?
- Gerald
PS: To add some background info. Here's a quote from Chris Anderson:
We are past the world of generating static snapshots of display and
blasting them down to a client.
My not-to-hidden agenda here is simple - dynamic applications should
be dynamic on the client. The server should send data - either through
web services, database access, or any other wire protocol - and the
client should consume that data and generate UI. The model of a server
trying to generate the correct display for a client is just broken.
I'm a bit confused by the concern that Microsoft is somehow trying to
threaten or take over the web with the introduction of a markup
language to program Windows applications. XAML is a new programming
model for the next release of Windows, code named "Longhorn". That's it.
---------------------------
Gerald Bauer
Rich Client Conference (RichCon) 2005 - http://richcon.com
XUL News Wire - http://xulnews.com
United XAML - http://unitedxaml.org
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