Avalon
October 28, 2003
In other Longhorn news, I came across several tidbits about Avalon, Microsoft's new XML-based UI framework that looks to be the long-rumored Flash-killer.
I'm still getting up to speed, but here a few things I've picked up so far: simple XML markup for implementing UI elements, 2- and 3D vector graphics, even animation routines; and a new framework for "context-aware" application development (whatever that means).
Not surprisingly, the developers are way out in front of the UE community on this one. A few posts of note:
Philip Brittan does a nice job of summing up the dilemma for Macromedia:
It may all be 2 years away, but if I were Macromedia I wouldn't wait to start getting worried.
And, this has got to be the scariest-looking smiley I have ever seen:
File under: User Experience
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