Microsoft's Sparkle Vs. Flash

Thought you guys and gals might be interested in an article I just put
up on Publish.com called "Sparkle Vs. Flash." Microsoft debuted Sparkle
at their developer's conference yesterday. And while I'm not big MS
fan, Sparkle looks pretty cool. We have one screen shot now, with five
more coming within the hour.

http://www.publish.com/
http://www.publish.com/article2/0,1895,1859431,00.asp

The screenshots say the Sparkle UI looks a lot like Macromedia's Studio
MX software.

Later today I'll be putting up a piece on Microsoft's new mobile
presentation foundation, codenamed Avalon. That should be the real
Flash-killer...

steve-o wrote:

Thought you guys and gals might be interested in an article I just put
up on Publish.com called "Sparkle Vs. Flash." Microsoft debuted Sparkle
at their developer's conference yesterday. And while I'm not big MS
fan, Sparkle looks pretty cool. We have one screen shot now, with five
more coming within the hour.

http://www.publish.com/
http://www.publish.com/article2/0,1895,1859431,00.asp

The screenshots say the Sparkle UI looks a lot like Macromedia's Studio
MX software.

Later today I'll be putting up a piece on Microsoft's new mobile
presentation foundation, codenamed Avalon. That should be the real
Flash-killer...

I myself shy away from corporate file formats, as they
tend to lock you in to a single vendor solution.
Going from FLASH to SPARKLE sounds like trading one devil
for another. Of course being that it's Microsoft , it will
probably need a web button [best viewed in IE on a windows OS]

Have you ever thought of doing such things in VRML?
I suppose what would be needed is some sort of
front-end editor/translator to make VRML pain free,
but it's a public format at least.


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Dr Clue wrote:

Have you ever thought of doing such things in VRML?
I suppose what would be needed is some sort of
front-end editor/translator to make VRML pain free,
but it's a public format at least.

....or SVG.

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On 15 Sep 2005 13:01:38 -0700, "steve-o" <SABryant (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Microsoft debuted Sparkle at their developer's conference yesterday.

And how is Sparkle differerent from "Liquid Motion", Microsoftoft's in-house
Flash-killer that they launched in '99 and that soon disapeared from
view ?

Does Sparkle work on a Mac ? It's Microsoftoft tradition to make products that
claim Mac support but fail to deliver it (IE) but going after the Flash
market is about as close to the hardcore Mac devotees as you could get.