At the Microsoft Mix ’06 conference, Microsoft executives displayed screenshots of sites using Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, which promises to bring Windows Vista graphics to other operating systems and different Web browsers. \r\n
\r\nHere, a Firefox browser displays an animation of a clock, which is a vector image, over the page’s background image.
This image, also shown at the Mix ’06 session on WPF/E, is a vector graphic in a Firefox browser. Users can zoom, rotate and pan the image, which was converted from an Adobe Illustrator image.
The Microsoft software will include an editor called WPF/E Pad for writing XAML, a new language scheduled for release with Windows Vista. Designers construct a page layout and graphical elements, and the editor generates the XAML code, which can be “read” by Microsoft’s Visual Studio tools.
Bill Detwiler is the Editor for Technical Content and Ecosystem at Celonis. He is the former Editor in Chief of TechRepublic and previous host of TechRepublic's Dynamic Developer podcast and Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show. Previously, Bill was an IT manager in the social research and energy industries. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisville, where he has also lectured on computer crime and crime prevention.
