Hello, Fritz Onion reports in a blog story titled "The end of the internet" on the keynote speech giving by Chris Anderson (Microsoft) at the Win-Dev Boston developer conference.
Fritz writes: Chris Anderson of the Avalon team at Microsoft gave an interesting keynote presentation this morning at Win-Dev here in Boston (well, technically Quincy, Mass.). It was entitled 'the end of the internet' and was oriented around the evolution and growing acceptance of 'smart clients' (a term for which he profusely apologized, but for which he had no substitute :), finishing up with a compelling demo of a XAML application being hosted in both a desktop window and a browser. I'd seen these features before, but it was an interesting approach to show the evolution from 1.1 WinForm clients through Whidbey, and Longhorn. Anyway, the coolest part of his talk was his slide deck. It looked innocently like a PowerPoint presentation, but if you watched closely, there was a rotating graphic in the background, slowly moving up, back, left, and right on each slide, so the entire slide had the impression of movement. It was subtle, and you really had to look to see it. When he decided to edit the content of one of his slides in mid-stream, he had his monkey (Ian Griffiths) open not PowerPoint but notepad and edit the source file for the presentation - which was of course XAML! His whole slide deck was just a XAML app using page navigation (I believe) - a very nice touch. Source: http://pluralsight.com/blogs/fritz/archive/2004/10/26/3004.aspx What's your take? Do you agree with Chris Anderson that Windows & XAML will rule and that the end of the internet is nigh? - Gerald PS: To add some background info. Here's a quote from Chris Anderson: We are past the world of generating static snapshots of display and blasting them down to a client. My not-to-hidden agenda here is simple - dynamic applications should be dynamic on the client. The server should send data - either through web services, database access, or any other wire protocol - and the client should consume that data and generate UI. The model of a server trying to generate the correct display for a client is just broken. I'm a bit confused by the concern that Microsoft is somehow trying to threaten or take over the web with the introduction of a markup language to program Windows applications. XAML is a new programming model for the next release of Windows, code named "Longhorn". That's it. --------------------------- Gerald Bauer Rich Client Conference (RichCon) 2005 - http://richcon.com XUL News Wire - http://xulnews.com United XAML - http://unitedxaml.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
