Animations in the XAML based world I first really came to animations as part of UI (other than the odd animated GIF that we used to use to display file copy progress and so on) with the arrival into my world of WPF and then Silverlight. In that world, you have the notion of a Storyboard which contains...
Something that I’ve been experimenting with just a little lately in the IE10 Preview (available on the Windows Developer Preview) is the idea of how simple HTML content (e.g. a DIV or an IMG) can respond to touch events in order to support the sort of gesture based interactions that a user might expect...
I’ve been working quite a lot lately with HTML and CSS and one of the things that I’m more than prepared to admit that I’m rubbish at is CSS-based layout. For those without a black-belt, CSS layout feels like a set of incantations that you have to get in exactly the right order for your content to appear...
Just a link to some interesting things that SteveB talked about at the recent developer forum in Japan; I can’t find an online video of the session yet but the transcript is up here and has some interesting pointers around a few future areas. Please note that I’m not attempting to add commentary or interpretation...
Yesterday, I was doing a little work with Silverlight and I’ve got this little sample that I’m working on; and one of the things that it does it talk XML or JSON to a back-end service depending on the value of the ComboBox up in the top right hand area. I wanted to do a little diagnosing around this...
In the light of the recent release of the RC for IE9 ( grab a download and try it out here ), Mozilla evangelist Paul Rouget picks a fight with IE9 over it not being a “modern browser”. My colleague at our Redmond based mother-ship, Tim Sneath takes up the challenge . I can see this one running into...
Sure, it’s an attention-grabbing title and, of course, it’s complete nonsense. I was watching the #Silverlight and #WPF tags on Twitter this week and saw a stream of noise about how various client technologies from Microsoft are “dead” and the killer seemed to be a mixture of Flash or HTML5 or even one...
If you’ve not been and done the test-drive of IE9 yet then the 3rd preview version has just gone out and it’s really, really worth taking a look even if you’re an internet-denier like me who thinks all this HTML and Javascript stuff will never take off and that the world is just waiting to re-awaken...
Giorgio has some interesting posts that he’s putting out over here on his blog; I’m just working my way through the most recent two at the time of writing; IE8 and HTML 5 IE8 and Web Standards