Some people use hyperbole to refer to the disclosure of Silverlight and CoreCLR by Microsoft at MIX07. April 30, 2007 has been called the day that will be remembered as the day that Microsoft "rebooted the web" . This might be true in more than one way. I was just reading the Silverlight SDK and was...
Microsoft has announced that the little cross-platform, cross-browser cousin of Windows Presentation Foundation will be called Silverlight . This technology which was first announced at PDC05 was codenamed "WPF/E". Tim Sneath has the best list so far of the features and power of this "Flash killer" technology...
Bruce Eckel has an interesting post on hybridizing Java with Flash . He notices the trend in the Java world to replace Java-based GUI frameworks (AWT, Swing, etc.) for Java apps by Flash. Incidently, I came across one such app yesterday evening when I installed PowerSnap . The UI indeed was somewhat...