Flash, Meet Sparkle 493
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."
I'm disrespectful to dirt! (Score:5, Funny)
Get out of my way, all of you!
This is no place for loafers.
Join me or die.
Can you do any less?
For lucky best wash, use Mr. Sparkle.
Oh, great. (Score:5, Funny)
I'm disrespectful to dirt! (Score:5, Funny)
Product Demonstration (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh, great. (Score:5, Funny)
You know, I'm beginning to doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Microsoft Naming Department (Score:3, Funny)
Sparkle (Score:2, Funny)
I wonder...
Re:Oh, great. (Score:2, Funny)
How can you vouche for the security of this? (Score:4, Funny)
Does your opinion have any technical merit? Have you inspected the source code to the implementation of this technology? Can you provide clear examples of malicious uses?
Or is your opinion based solely upon the past actions of Microsoft, with regards to similar technology?
Re:Not flash killer. (Score:3, Funny)
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!
Re:I'm disrespectful to dirt! (Score:2, Funny)
Alas, I have been vanquished!
Re:What sort of security vulnerabilities.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:XAML? (Score:5, Funny)
Instead of taking an open spec like XUl and joining it, bettering it, and implementing it they chose to go their own way. Nothing to see here, runalong now and leave the evil people to their own devices.
Re:XAML? (Score:2, Funny)
Morons. Haven't they ever heard of run-length encoding? Compress those images
the C. P. Snow Divide of Sciences and Humanities (Score:1, Funny)
It seems like Slashdot has become completely blind to its prejudices, and will criticize Microsoft whatever it does.
Commenting that "Flash and Powerpoint are bad things" is to me indicative of a parochial, extremely narrow-minded worldview; a view that is completely ignorant of half of the world's desires and life-cultures.
If people really think that Microsoft makes crappy products, do you think Bill Gates would have been the richest man in the world for 11 straight years? (And also the biggest philanthropist the world has ever seen?) Can you do that for me please? Why do you think the whole world uses Microsoft products? Do you think that if Microsoft would have used fairer marketing strategies giving fair chance to each competitor, their products would have died out, and the company wiped out because of their low quality products?
This anti-flash, anti-ease-of-use, anti-glamour, anti-aesthetic, anti-comfort, anti-authoritian attitude reminds me of the C.P.Snow divide between the Sciences and Humanities.
I feel the need for our coming together.
Re:Not flash killer. (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, I'm sure many a developer will be worried about tarnishing their macho, manly image.
What?! No more Flash-based Microsoft Ads? (Score:2, Funny)
I mean I so enjoy seeing Microsoft advertise their development tools using Flash based ads on Slashdot!
It just makes me laugh everytime I see one!
Will they now be Sparkle-based?!
Re:How can you vouche for the security of this? (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, this is an interesting rule. Well, in that case, I'd like to point out that next year will not be the year for Linux on the desktop.
Re:How can you vouche for the security of this? (Score:3, Funny)
Fact is that version 2.0 of Firefox will perform and in-depth psychological analysis of the designer of the web site based on the site to figure out what he meant to do, so it can always render it correctly. It will also detect the evil bits to prevent all possible trojans, viruses, spam popups and other malware from working. Linux kernel 3.0 will also use this technology to prevent any program from crashing or misbehaving, ever, however it will be facing heavy competition from GNU Hurd, which will have risen to dominate the desktops everywhere after the Mach got torn out and replaced with an interpreted Bash script providing a huge performance boost.
On what do you base this estimation ? And do you refer to the current state of Firefox, or to th state it is going to be in when IE8 comes out ?
Re:Often programmers know very little... (Score:2, Funny)
The day this happens is the day I change careers.