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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. Come on people... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...This is crap-ola, and you know it. The truth is only Roland can tell us for sure, and since Timmy got seriously FUCKED up the ASS by Taco, Roland's services haven't been needed by Timmy, thus no Roland stories...

  2. Re:Product Demonstration by Bravid98 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nice job mods.

    3 Interesting

  3. Geez, what a name. by elgee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sparkle?? That is so Ghey!

    Straight guys will only use it in the dead of night without anyone present.

  4. Anyone got a version of the video less than 917Meg by spoco2 · · 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?