[dirGames-L] [OT] XAML

[Allen Partridge]

Certainly an interesting thought Jonas. 

I know I spent a good portion of the year fussing with XUL and cursing
the lack of support and tools available to master the language (not to
mention the frustrating differences between the common browsers /
versions.)  

I think that the problem with these efforts is that we should be seeing
these things get easier, and 3D programming requires several sort of
underlying paradigms that the average user certainly and many times even
developer hasn't yet mastered.

Certainly however Microsoft can force a ubiquity issue just about as far
as anyone, so if Avalon is the horse that MS is backing, you'd have to
be crazy not to at least bet a few bucks on it. ;)

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

--al

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[mailto:dirgames-l-bounces at nuttybar.drama.uga.edu] On Behalf Of Jonas
Beckeman
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 5:45 PM
To: 'Director - Shockwave - and Flash Game Production'
Subject: [dirGames-L] [OT] XAML

For those of you who haven't read much about Avalon/WPL/XAML - take the
time
to look at these videos:

Demos of several Avalon aspects (56 min):
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=62621

3D stuff (23 min):
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=34528


The first video is from the Flash Forward conference, which is
interesting.
I don't think Macromedia/Adobe would invite a competing technology that
seems to be set to blow both Flash and Director away, if they didn't
have
some kind of cooperation planned.

As I see it, in a couple of years XAML might well have replaced both
HTML,
Flash, Shockwave and normal desktop applications in many areas. I will
go so
far as to say that it may be necessary for several other OS to implement
XAML/.NET support in order to stay healthy in the consumer segment.

I've been looking at ways to allow Endogine to be an XAML authoring
tool,
and maybe that's what MM is about to do, in regards to MS being present
at
the conference - they're adapting Flash to support XAML, securing it's
future not as a player and file format, but as a tool? That seems like
the
most probable conclusion to me.

Other ideas as to what might be going on?

/Jonas

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