Finally, the facts are out for
XAML.
I’ve been waiting for this release for a few years now. Prior to this
it has all been roumors and speculation.
First impressions: Very Mixed
The first things that struck me was how MS reinvented everything. A lot of
your exisitng experience for writing applications are totally wasted, at least if
you come from a [...]
This makes me wish Safari was available for Windows.
Safari 1.1 has some really awesome features (I’m voting for these in Bugzilla for Mozilla). How about these goodies:
Support for CSS3 RGBA colors. I’m not sure this is a complete support. Dave Hyatt just lists the most important properties. (Bugzilla Entry)
Support for CSS2 text-shadow. (Bugzilla Entry)
CSS3 opacity.
A [...]
Ryan Dawson writes at his Longhorn Blog about XAML.
If you don’t know what XAML is you should read Ryan Dawson’s entry first.
XAML is Microsofts version of XUL. I like XUL but without the installation base it is not a viable alternative to using DHTML for creating zero footprint rich client web application.
For now I just [...]
While looking for information about upcoming Longhorn features I stumpled upon these interesting job details at Microsoft Careers. The job description says that Longhorn will build a next generation NNTP Newsgroup functionality into the Longhorn Windows Shell. As an example it says that if the user is in My Photos and clicks “Windows Village”, they [...]
Another week, another Bindows release. This realese has some important bug fixes and we are getting closer and closer to a 1.0 release.
Today the Mozilla Foundation released 3 new milestones. Most anticipated is the Mozilla Firebird 0.7 release but I snatched the Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 release as well. I did not install Mozilla 1.5 since I have no use for it any more.
Does anyone know if there will be any broadcasts or slideshows available to people who cannot go to the PDC in LA? Would it not be great if all the sessions
were recorded and then downloadable to MSDN Subscribers?
Dylan Greene has a good post about how sandboxing Windows could make computing a lot more secure.
Since Longhorn will be using Avalon, which is a .Net API, I don’t see why this would not be possible. .Net already has most of these security features built in and Longhorn will most likely use .Net 2.0, so [...]
No idea’s original
There’s nothing new under the sun
It’s never what you do but how it’s done
What you base your happines around?
Material, women and large paper?
That means you inferior, not major