Hi, Geoffrey- Yes, I for one welcome our new vector format overlords. ;)
I do agree that Flash is a little underpowered in the programming side (from what I've seen). But XAML is way too overworked. I think SVG is in a sweet spot between the two, and it's based on standards that are widely implemented. We don't know yet how SVG in IE will play out, but I'm not ready to jump ship yet. Regards- -Doug Geoffrey Swenson wrote: > By abandoning SVG, the net effect for us and Adobe is that XAML is going to > be the way to go. > > > > Unless Adobe massively changes Flash to have a decent editor and improves > the ease of programming I just don't see it gaining a lot of developer > interest. Why should I pay almost $1000 for Flash and its tedious, > user-hostile graphic editor, the non-intuitive and overly animation-focused > timeline editor, when the same $1000 buys me the MSDN library including XAML > that was designed from the ground up to be a programmable graphical > environment? > > > > If you don't have $1000 for MSDN, just Notepad and a good XAML book && > online help should get you a long ways, especially for web-based stuff. > > > > Microsoft can leverage their position as the largest software company to > make XAML a very complete solution in a way that nobody else can manage. I'm > sure that it will be, as usual, somewhat overdeveloped and bloated, but > since it is part of the graphical underpinnings of Vista, they must have got > it to work, unlike - for example - Firefox SVG which is still way behind the > soon-to-be-orphaned Adobe plug-in. > > > > If I am going to have to pick one technology, I'll take the one that runs on > most of the computers. I am also picking the one that makes development > easy. If it happens to be Open Source, fine, but if XAML ends up being the > way to go, so be it. It really helps to have a revenue stream to pay for a > lot of talented work. Just 5% of Microsoft's Vista budget is hundreds of > millions of dollars - even Adobe does not have that kind of money to spend > on this. > > > > By early next year IE7 and Vista will be released. Almost everyone running > XP will be automatically upgraded to IE7, so coverage will be fairly large > in a few weeks after the release. > > > > I don't agree with the reviewers that think that Vista / IE7 are a warmed > over copy of Apple and Firefox. Perhaps the user interfaces are nothing > really new, but under the hood is a whole host of improvements are going to > make development of custom graphical applications a lot easier. XAML is at > the core of this, and I am looking forward to it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/WktRrD/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
