Microsoft's Sparkle
Microsoft has anounced the details of their "Sparkle" project. Ars Technica has a write up and channel9 has a video of the introduction at the PDC (which I'm currently downloading). After I check out this video I'll be back with some opinions on it.
posted by Michael Sica at
9:41 PM
2 Comments:
Sparkle does look pretty awesome - the only problems with it are that it requires Vista (and it's "Avalon" Windows Presentation System) and thus won't be cross-platform. It will be a wonderful tool for Vista app devs though. It's similar to how you can't run Cocoa apps on anything other than OSX, so it has some merit. Especially once M$ convinces the majority of businesses and home users to switch to Vista.
I don't see it really being a challenge to Flash in any way. The idea behind XAML is a good one (sort of a "Super CSS"), and I would bet that Adobe/Macromedia has plans to integrate XAML into their joint next gen platform.
I downloaded the video last night, but I haven't watched it yet. (I don't like to stream videos.) I'm looking forward to seeing what they've come up with. Since it's a dev tool coming from Microsoft, I doubt I'd ever use it.
But I am a big believer that competition makes for better products. Maybe this will force some of the other tool makers to improve their stuff.
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