camlinaeizerous wrote:
"Microsoft Expressions" a new development tool reminded a lot of people of flash studio and it seems like a copy of flash with A Microsoft label on top. Although I didn't get to see a lot of the under working just a quick over view, essentially by default the time line is on the bottom drawing tools on the right and library on the left. It seemed so similar during the overview I heard people actually laughing saying it looked like flash. however looking at the code that was generated and the movements and transitions were basically generated with java.
Actually, Microsoft Expression is new Microsoft Platform for "artistic" development. It consist of three tools : Web Designer (codename Quartz) - which is a replacement for Office Front Page (there's no FrontPage in Office 2007)., Graphic Designer (codename Acrylic), and Interactive Designer (codename Sparkle). You were talking about the last one, I guess.
I'm checking expression's website for a year, to get some data for flex and apollo comparisions. Been playing around with Sparkle few hours. There are definitely some cool things about it, but I, for instance, don't like the incoherent (but nice) interface and I fail to understand how to build RIA using old timeline concept. Sparkle is meant to be a tool for designers, not coders. Let's see how they will cooperate in future. Today, as a developer from java world, I can quickly learn how to build an working and functional app in Flex. I have
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