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Flash, Meet Sparkle

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the anything-you-can-do dept.

Robert writes "Microsoft finally released more information about their Sparkle product on a Channel 9 MSDN video. Sparkle is vector based XAML system for doing applications that may have traditionaly been done in flash. Ars Technica's Josh Meier has a few things to say about it, too."

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  1. Re:Sparkle is not a flash killer by BitwizeGHC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "programs like winamp"?

    How about "programs like MS Office" which since God knows when has come with its own separate widgetset? You see, those UI guidelines, those are for *other* programmers to follow.

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  2. Re:Anyone against SVG? by Lehk228 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    />

      is still technically XML

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  3. Nice going Slashdot by DigitlDud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Flash, Meet Sparkle" and then linking to an article explaining how it has nothing to do with Flash at all.