[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The link didn't have much meat about why the Macromedia CEO isn't scared of > Sparkle, I note. I wonder if he had a solid-fronted podium so that the > audience couldn't see his knees knocking? :)
People were actually walking around on the stage, no podium. ;-) (I haven't seen much of a company stance on Sparkle or other announcements... we can see technology previews, and these have some good principles (vectors, network requests, visuals enhancing accessibility, etc), but until it's finalized and shipping things can change. Then after that there's the audience and their needs to consider...!) Ronan Oger wrote: > Well, it was a keynote. The future is great. Everything is fine. > I agree, there was not much meat. Maybe the keynote transcript > is published somewhere with more...? If so, I am sure our MM > friends will happily pass it on to us. Here's the most rigorous in-house reporting: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/max2005/ And lots more informal reporting from various participants: http://snipurl.com/max_smartcategory (redirects to the MXNA aggregator & its "MAX" ad-hoc category) I haven't seen text or video transcripts yet. I've scanned the various news articles (including the one which started this thread), but these are often as much about the reporter as about the event. > I wonder increasingly if our little world won't realign itself > from SVG vs MM to SVG + MM vs WMF. I don't have much info here, but my current personal expectation is that, some time after the Adobe deal closes, there will be some type of technology roadmap. I haven't seen much aversion to SVG at Macromedia, although this has often gotten mixed with reaction to the "boo SWF bad!" types of campaigns. Things seem open to me. Doug Schepers wrote: > Perhaps it's optimistic of me, but I keep thinking that one > of the goals of SVG was to be a vector-graphics interchange > format. Not a Flash-killer, not a Sparkle-desparkler, but > as an open-standard shared medium that IDEs for each could > export to. > Sure, there are features that are specific to each of SVG, > XAML-stuff, and Flash, but there's also got to be a good > bit of common ground. I'm hoping that SVG flourishes in > that common ground. This sounds good to me too, thanks for writing that, Doug. :) Jerrold Maddox wrote: > My view has been that SVGs potential is not as a Flash killer, > but a way to create documents that get the best out of XHTML, > PDF and Flash - a very effective way to present information > efficiently, appropriately and gracefully, which none of > these three formats do now. I'm with you on this, too. That mention of PDF is important -- I'd suspect that this format, runtime, and ecology will be quite important in any future roadmaps. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
