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Flash, Meet Sparkle

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday September 15, 2005 @03:14PM 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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Re:Product Demonstration by Bravid98 · 2005-09-15 15:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Nice job mods.

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Geez, what a name. by elgee · 2005-09-15 15:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Sparkle?? That is so Ghey!

Straight guys will only use it in the dead of night without anyone present.
Anyone got a version of the video less than 917Meg by spoco2 · 2005-09-15 16:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Has anyone got a recompressed, or lower res version of this video? I can't stream it, and I'll be buggered if I'm going to download 917Meg for one hour of video... man, I downlo... erm, I mean I 'recompress and store my own, legal copies of' movies that come in less than a CD in size, and they look almost identical to DVD quality, why is this so DARN BIG?