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12/13/2005 Whats its Compatition?It has 3 main competitors
The main competion is Flash, by far the leader in vector amination and more recently streaming video it has a near 90% penation in the browser market and lately mobile devices but with poor dev interfaces and mainly designer centric. Adobe which has recently sewn up the designer market with Photoshop, Flash and dreamweaver to name but a few of it formidable assets in the professional graphic's designer toolbox it will be hard to turn its talented user base into a new tools and languages but if anyone can it is microsoft with it vast resourses of money and talent. SVG Scalable vector graphics was W3 next flash like standard. It was begining to take off but since adobe bought flash i personally dont think they will push 2 compeititing formats and without IE planning to support it by default, its stuck in no mans land to langish without a patron. Older IE Technologies There is some amazing browser plugins Microsoft created years ago that standard on nearly all recent versions of IE, about 85-90% of browser currently that are only begining to see the light of day. Ajax Some of you may heard alot about AJAX and DHTML recently. This is quite old technology that is being re-discovered with google as it main parton used in using in GMail, Google suggest, Googel Maps and earlier Outlook Web Access but name a few examples. People are begining to think of Rich web clients written in standard browser technologies since firefox recently implement xmlhttprequest. Some simple ajax effects at http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/runscript.php?scr=imgPress-X.html VML, SMIL and DA IE built in graphic is being re-discovered recently now as firefox has now implemented it own version <canvas>. This now allows a X-browser compatiably of vector animations that is crawlable. The main reason these technologies never took off before was a few reasons
Demo's: What is WPF/E?WPF/E stands for Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere which is a new vector based standard/language for the web.
Its based on a slimdown version of MS WPF which is xml presentation for creating hardware accelerated software and web user interfaces with powerful features including 2D and 3D drawing, advanced text rendering, vector graphics, raster graphics, animation, data binding, audio and video, but WPF/E wont have some of the advanved 3D stuff.
WPF/E will work as browser plugin for most major browsers and OS's. It will scriptable for Dynamic XAML via javascript which will enable event driven UI similar to AJAX or http://atlas.asp.net.
It is to be released for sometime in the new year probably in conjuction with release of MS Windows Vista runmored to be releasing Winter 2006.
It was first announced at the PDC 2005 that MS would enable slim down version XAML that could be portable as Flash but still have progamable via visual studio cider or via MS Expression Designer aka sparkle.
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