geraldbauer2005
2005-09-14 03:11:56 UTC
Hello,
Ben Galbraith writes in the blog story titled "Avalon Everywhere?
Cross-platform Microsoft?":
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.
Also, Microsoft's Ajax framework, Atlas, will target WPF/E. The WPF/E
subset of Avalon will include all of the Avalon features (vector
graphics, animations, etc.) less 3D, some of their XPS features (XPS
== Microsoft PDF clone), and hardware acceleration.
In a WPF/E session, someone asked if Microsoft's WPF/E plug-in will be
available in Firefox; the speaker dodged the question ("We hope such
support will emerge ").
My first reaction to WPF/E is frankly disappointment that they
wouldn't just embrace SVG, though what I've seen of 2D XAML makes it
look a while lot like SVG with different attribute names and various
other differences. I wonder if XSLT will do the trick there
Lack of many of the Avalon features in WPF/E, notably hardware
acceleration, really makes it seem that the strategy is to make apps
work on other platforms, but make them work poorly compared to Windows
motivating users to switch to a Windows platform.
Source: http://galbraiths.org/blog/?p=12
Comments? Thoughts?
- Gerald
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Ben Galbraith writes in the blog story titled "Avalon Everywhere?
Cross-platform Microsoft?":
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.
Also, Microsoft's Ajax framework, Atlas, will target WPF/E. The WPF/E
subset of Avalon will include all of the Avalon features (vector
graphics, animations, etc.) less 3D, some of their XPS features (XPS
== Microsoft PDF clone), and hardware acceleration.
In a WPF/E session, someone asked if Microsoft's WPF/E plug-in will be
available in Firefox; the speaker dodged the question ("We hope such
support will emerge ").
My first reaction to WPF/E is frankly disappointment that they
wouldn't just embrace SVG, though what I've seen of 2D XAML makes it
look a while lot like SVG with different attribute names and various
other differences. I wonder if XSLT will do the trick there
Lack of many of the Avalon features in WPF/E, notably hardware
acceleration, really makes it seem that the strategy is to make apps
work on other platforms, but make them work poorly compared to Windows
motivating users to switch to a Windows platform.
Source: http://galbraiths.org/blog/?p=12
Comments? Thoughts?
- Gerald
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