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Longhorn's Flash Killer?
SunSaw writes "Erin Joyce reports on internetnews.com that "Top developers at Microsoft are working on a new graphics and animation toolset for Longhorn (the next generation of Windows) that could spell trouble for Macromedia's popular Flash MX and Director MX animation tools".
Flash's yet-to-be-released competition from M$ is code named "Sparkle" but it wasn't demonstrated during Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last week.
Is this the beginning of the end for Macromedia?"
A lot of the goals Microsoft is aiming at with "Sparkle" are the same as those Flash is looking to accomplish, one source said. But the tool goes beyond Flash in delivering a .NET application that has access to all the APIs (define) in Longhorn, and effectively takes animation beyond the browser to enable, say, three videos running at the same time as other graphics and animation.
Ah, yes, because giving access to the user's system to outsiders has worked so well with ActiveX, IE, and pretty much every other product Microsoft has put out.
Is this a sigs-optional kind of place? 'Cause I am totally down with that if you know what I mean.
How about this ?
Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1992-1951
To Microsoft:
Please please please please please make IE W3C compliant fixing all the CSS etc bugs and including SVG support. You can not imagine how cool it would be for webdesigners around the world to be able to design things properly and my faith in you would be.. erm created.
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Nice. Mod Funny please.
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