Steve's correct, Canvas doesn't really care how wide/high its children
are in regards to itself. Encapsulating the TextBlock inside a border
and using that as your Source of Truth should get you the results you
desire, but yeah you have a ghetto border now :)
Not sure why FontSize doesn't trigger
Without trying anything in code, I'd be guessing that putting the
textblock onto/into the canvas makes it behave differently than when
its in the border. I've seen quite a lot of sizing things behave
differently depending upon the parent container.
Have you tried it in a grid instead of a canvas?
I have to agree with Scott on this one. The use of the term “ethics” is a bit
strong here IMHO. Reminds me of children overboard – what’s worse, the
whistleblowing from someone exposing a lie, or the actual lie?
T.
From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com
[mailto:ozsilverlight-boun.
The things I have done, seen and carried out for Microsoft that have eroded the
word ethics leaves me sleeping ok at night knowing what I have done is probably
the most righteous ethical thing I've done heheh ;)
This isn't a black or white argument lots of gray shades ;)
On 15/09/2010, at 2:47
>> It's exposing a lot of hidden conversations both internally and externally,
>> is that good or bad?
Which I think is taunting with this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breach_of_confidence
I'm sure that it is meant well, but it comes across as being rather unethical
to me.
Darren neim
I can accept your opinion here and agree in parts I am having mixed feelings
about the approach. Would I do it differently probably but it's just full steam
ahead ?
Also just know that a journalist did most of the work based off some tweets so
really my efforts were just the final pieces he ne
Hi Scott,
>> It's exposing a lot of hidden conversations both internally and
externally, is that good or bad?
I appreciate the work you put in while at Microsoft to make sure issues from
guys like me were being raised internally (I mean that). The problem I had
with this post isn't that you kicke
Jordan (XAMLing), Michael Kordahi (Microsoft), Andrew Coates (Microsoft) and
I spoke about this. :)
http://www.noisetosignal.com.au/franklyspeaking/?p=256
http://www.noisetosignal.com.au/franklyspeaking/?p=260
I'll also be covering this question /again/ at the upcoming Web Directions
South confe
Gosh, you guys really need to write shorter email, < 300 words would be
good...
But seriously, is HTML5 going to load into different browsers, including the
legacy ones? That is important. If it isn't, then I can still see a market
for SL.
T.
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Good points... but I wonder, what's going to happen to smooth streaming
actually, it sounds a lot like the HTTP Live Streaming standard that Apple
made, which got people talking the other week when they had the ipod keynote
live stream.
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Jose Fajardo <
jose.faja.
"A reasonable man adapts himself to his environment. An unreasonable
man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George
Bernard Shaw.
Regards,
Scott Barnes
http://www.riagenic.com
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:3
Hmm, I'm a little shocked of all people you wrote the below Paul ? (i
mean that with sincerity).
You and i have had a few discussions around this space, you've shown
frustration that Silverlight has gotten more attention than WPF and so
on. The reality is that whether you agree or disagree with th
Before this list turns entirely into an ausdotnet trollfest, how about a
Silverlight question?
Does anyone know why a textblock is not firing SizeChanged event when the
fontsize changes?
Example:
... to bump that chain of thought - plugins are easer to install / get
installed than browsers. And, plugins don't wreck corporate apps built
around SOE (i.e. upgrade from IE6).
I like your points John - ubiquity is the key to the reach argument.
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:34 PM, John OBrien wrot
One of the great discussions that came about by Scott's email is around "who
will take the HTML5 crown"
Basically not all implementations of the HTML5 spec will be equal, and the way
it may turn out is that MS thru IE9 and it's future tooling may implement the
best version of html5 to which all
>> Wpf has had little or next to no investments beyond what the vs2010 team
needed and some basics from variety of community sources if any. It's had
zero marketing budget and wasn't even mentioned as a developer story in win7
launches
I get that feeling too, but I don't think it's necessarily a b
They is Microsoft.
I don’t work for MS, so I don’t not its internals, however I’ve worked for
several large corporations and I’m all too familiar with
inter-department/division power struggles. This is nothing new.
Realistically I’m sure each division is given its budget, timelines and
delive
The sad part about HTML5 is all the awesome innovative stuff we've seen out of
MSFT powered by Silverlight will now have to been slowly ported over HTML5 and
the loser is new innovation.
Great that it will have more reach but from an innovation point of view it
sucks. Example Photosynth, sure
Whe u say "they" who are u referring to? Developer division or ie / windows
team? And who has right of way in terms of budgets and launch timelines? Msft
has loads of money but if you have ever sat in a review of the business etc u
will note that being held fiscally accountable is very important
First, everyone should also read Mike Taulty’s post:
http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2010/09/10/iphone-4-is-dead.aspx
Another thing that I didn’t see too much in all this hoopla is talking about
the obvious that Silverlight is reaching maturity (not end of lif
Saying any technology is dead if plain foolish imo.
Software platforms don't die, they just become less popular.
Hell, even when the platform vendor stops supporting it, the platforms
continue to be in use.
HTML5 looks like another Java to me.
Sure it will run on many different browse
Nice post Jordan ;)
My thoughts personally is there is room for both and I'm on record by saying
msft should consider using sl + ie together to handle the html5 execution
silently - it drives ubiquity and upholds both sides of the isle.
Wpf has had little or next to no investments beyond what t
Guys just my 2 cents...
This is a very big issue that Scott has ignited, and he was right to bring it
out into the light.
I'm in disagreement with Scott on a lot of what he has to say regarding
Silverlight and its' future. I personally believe that it has a very long and
bright future ahead of
I'd also like to raise some points RE HTML5 and WPF/SL etc.
Back in the 1890's the head of the US patent office declared he was going to
close the office because he thought that there was nothing left to invent...
rather short sighted given hindsight...
My point is that HTML5 will bring to the ma
I'm long past worried about employment prospects in Microsoft or this
industry :) I did what and whilst some display hatred for it, others
inside Microsoft have been sending me positive emails stating in a
nutshell it was about time someone spoke out. Make no mistake, there
are a lot of people inte
On 14 September 2010 21:36, Corneliu Tusnea wrote:
> Sorry to tell you but I'm so sick of Scott's overly-opinionated attitude.
> He has(had) access to a fair bit of internal knowledge inside Microsoft that
> he saw through his own eyes and now he got out and he's spitting everywhere
> around him
Hi All :)
Let me clarify my motivation as i have with Scott Guthrie and the rest
of the teams. I sent the post/tweets into the wild based off what
others within the company have told me time and time again. Majority
of what I've stated isn't actually my opinion of how things should be
or why WPF i
I think everyone should try to keep their cool. Although I may not agree
with Scott's *opinion*, it is his opinion in some sense, and everyone has a
right to say whatever they want, whether it's right or wrong. I didn't read
his entire post, but I think it's definitely a combination of being
disgru
Great and gutsy email Corneliu... I agree with and fully support what you have
said. Scott needs to walk away and take a good hard look.
- Darren Neimke
From: Corneliu Tusnea
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 9:06 PM
To: ozSilverlight
Subject: RE: Interesting article re: WPF/Silverlight/HTML
Sorry to tell you but I'm so sick of Scott's overly-opinionated attitude. He
has(had) access to a fair bit of internal knowledge inside Microsoft that he
saw through his own eyes and now he got out and he's spitting everywhere around
him having no clue about the (moral) damage he does to people
Even as the web standards zealot in the corner, I wouldn't agree with many
of Scott's points.
Jordan Knight and I just discussed the relationship between HTML5 and
Silverlight across two episodes of Frankly Speaking:
http://www.noisetosignal.com.au/franklyspeaking/?p=256
http://www.noiseto
Via CodeProject 'Daily News' (14/09/2010) -
http://www.riagenic.com/archives/363
Dr. Dan Lazner, PhD | Software Architect/Engineer/Developer
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