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Universal Desktop Daily - Friday, December 1, 2006
Big list today! A podcast about Rich Internet Applications, an update on Apollo, discussion on the SWF2XAML plugin, Firefox compared to Apollo, iBloks and SWF running side by side with XAML!
- Web Analytics Association has a podcast up with Avinash Kaushik of Occam's Razor in which they talk about Rich Media including Ajax and Flash. It puts a smile on my face to see Rich Internet Applications being talked about by a wider audience. Avinash worked with Allurent, so he has a good take on what is going on with the RIA space. Thanks to Marshall for the link.
- Mike Chambers has a big update on Apollo and talks about what is included in the M2 release. I think it's pretty exciting and I can't wait until the public gets a hold of it.
- There is a big discussion on Channel 9 about the ethics of the SWF2XAML plugin by Mike Swanson. I think this is a nonissue, but it generated some heated discussion so I wanted to highlight it. I think the SWF2XAML plugin is awesome, and I think the idea of it infringing on copyrights is crazy. The more tools like this the more people are free to choose the best technology out there. That encourages competition and that means better RIA technology for everyone. Mike, it's an awesome tool
- Craig Babcock makes an interesting point about how Firefox can be a Rich Internet Application platform. I'm not sure it will compare with Apollo when all is said and done, but there is no doubt that Firefox is much more than a web browser.
- Scott Schwarzhoff posted about iBloks on the MSDN forums. I'm not entirely sure what iBloks is all about but their 3D demo is kind of cool. (Warning, requires .NET 3.0 Framework).
- Lee Brimlow has an example of SWF and XAML running side by side. It is interesting that the XAML takes much longer to load. This is really cool Lee. Update: I thought about this a bit. I think it's a bad comparison (but still interesting). For an application this small, I think a SWF / WPF/e comparison would be good. It might be better to do a Flex/XBAP comparison. I think the XBAP would still be slower, but WPF wasn't really meant just to load an animation like this. WPF/e seems more suited for that.