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Silverlight 2.0 (formerly known as 1.1) Announced
30 November 07 02:50 PM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

ScottGu dropping the news as usual. Most interesting feature, IMO, is the upgraded communication support: "The next Silverlight preview release will add support for REST, POX, RSS, and WS* communication. It will also add support for cross domain network...

Filed under: WPF/E, .NET, Silverlight

JD Confused
05 April 07 11:46 AM | Jesse Ezell | 1 comment(s)

JD is confused about the statement made in a MS presentation with don and chris: Chris: We’ve made our intentions clear with WPF/E; we’re not pretending [like Adobe is with Flash] that it is some kind of open standard. People are saying that...

Filed under: WPF, Flash, WPF/E

WPF/E Faster than Flash?
13 March 07 10:36 PM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

Been busy launching a new product for the last few months ( http://www.articulate.com/products/articulate-online.php ), but getting some time to hit the blogs and noticed this tidbit: "Here are results I got testing with 16 balls on my Pentium M...

Filed under: Flash, WPF/E, .NET

WPF/E CTP Around the Corner
18 November 06 03:04 AM | Jesse Ezell | 1 comment(s)

SWEEET! "Microsoft is preparing to release a Community Technology Preview of WPF/E, a subset of the Windows Presentation Foundation that utilizes cross-browser Web technologies and is designed to run on multiple operating systems and even mobile...

Filed under: WPF/E, .NET

SVG is Dead
07 September 06 05:39 AM | Jesse Ezell | 3 comment(s)

Via JD, Adobe has killed all future SVG player development. With Adobe out of the game due to Flash and Microsoft out of the game with WPF/E, we are one step closer to SVG being know as the vector graphics betamax. [1] http://www.adobe.com/svg/eol.html...

Filed under: Flash, WPF/E, General Software Development, Adobe, SVG

SWF, is it Really Open?
05 June 06 05:44 PM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

So, Adobe is threatening to sue Microsoft in regard to supporting PDF and XPS in Office... I wonder what is going to happen with the supposedly open SWF format... It's a good thing Microsoft didn't follow JD's advice and integrate it into their products...

Filed under: Flash, WPF/E, General Software Development, Microsoft, XPS, Adobe, SWF

WPF/E
24 May 06 02:47 AM | Jesse Ezell | 4 comment(s)

Tim Anderson has some commentary on WPF/E. He sums up his thoughts like this: In the past Microsoft has been characterised by its single-minded focus on Windows. Why does it now want to create a cross-platform runtime engine? It is the clearest sign yet...

Filed under: WPF, Flash, AJAX, Java, DHTML, WPF/E, Tim Anderson