Why would I want to ask my Firefox and Opera-using clients to download a plug-in to do something those browsers can already do natively?
Maybe if all you really care about is Windows, then yeah, knock yourself out. A vote for proprietary technology in this case is a vote for more corporate power. Yeah, I think M$ needs some more of that. I'm sure they'll never abuse it. Let's all help M$ by adopting WPF/E over equivalent open standard and open source alternatives! Guy On 05/12/2006, at 4:47 PM, kggsystem wrote: > Well, too bad you won't give it a spin. > > I forgot to mention that the WPF/E Beta has runtimes for Internet > Explorer and Firefox on the PC, and for the MAC. Linux runtimes will > follow within a year. Makes me wonder how much more effort the FF > people will want to put into SVG now that they have this WPF/E stuff. > > I have been a SVG fan for a long time, but not because it was an Open > Standard spec'd by comittee. I am a fan of SVG because of what it can > do for me and my customers. I am a fan because of it's declarative > nature, elegant schema, rich feature set, and scriptable DOM. So by > extension I am a fan of this WPF/E stuff too. Same model. It has > nothing to do with blinders or gullibility or that Bill Gates > invented the Web, Cellular Telephone, and Transistor or whatever else > he invented. > > Kevin > > > > > --- In [email protected], Guy Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Nup, I'm not the least bit interested in that. Another proprietary >> model for delivering "rich web apps"? no thanks. >> >> I can't believe *anyone*, except die-hard and blinkered M$ fans, > can want this. >> >> Sounds like they ought to be able to support SVG using this stuff >> though, and pretty easily I'd have thought. Clearly they understand >> the problem space well enough. What's lacking, as always with M$, >> is the will to give support to a technology they can't own. >> It's my fervent hope that sooner or later this will bring about >> their demise, however, breathless announcements about how "cool" >> stuff like this is indicates to me that M$ are as good as ever at >> spinning a line for the gullible. They'll have everyone believing >> they invented the web all over again. >> >> Let's hope this goes the way of "Microsoft Network", and they are >> eventually forced to throw their lot in with the rest of humanity, >> instead of reinventing everything as their own. >> >> Guy >> >> On 05/12/2006, at 6:56 AM, kggsystem wrote: >> >>> WPF/E is much more closer to SVG than the full fledged WPF, in > that it >>> runs "loose markup" with a scripting model, in a browser. The Full >>> Fledged WPF really requires a compilation step before it is very >>> useful. >>> >>> SVG Model >>> >>> 1) User in Browser points to an URL that might be HTML and/or SVG. >>> 2) Files (HTML, SVG, JS, CSS) are returned, rendered, and the > scripts >>> are activated. Javascript can manipulate the SVG DOM to do stuff >>> 3) User is in Business >>> >>> WPF/E Model >>> >>> 1) User in Browser points to an URL that might be HTML and/or > XAML. >>> 2) Files (HTML, XAML, JS) are returned, rendered, and the scripts > are >>> activated. Javascript can manipulate the WPF/E DOM to do stuff >>> 3) User is in Business >>> >>> Check it out, you might find it interesting >>> >>> Kevin >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers- >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> -or- >>> visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and > click "edit >>> my membership" >>> ---- >>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > > ----- > To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -or- > visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit > my membership" > ---- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > ----- 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/
