.Net, Avalon and the future of the net
Got forwarded this interesting article on .Net:
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9211/ddj050201dnn/
Seems to me that only C# will remain, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
I played with the Avalon preview, and I suspect that it is very much as the man says: a new markup language for a browser. The starkest thing about the .Net readme's was the admission that .Net Forms was now "done and no longer under development". The next starkest thing was that all the Avalon samples were only really available in C#, not VB.
Avalon also looks hugely complicated, and seems to involve lots of work to do anything. I wonder if already is suffering from the bloat that killed .Net. My current conspiracy theory favourite is a friend's: Google and MS are both working towards a new 3D visualisation browser. This is where all those OS people from MS are going in Google. Firefox man and IE man working hand in hand over the next browser tech. Apparently there are numerous standards out there, and obviously MS want to have the dominant force. If the Opensource crew are so stupid as to argue about standards, MS can come in and blindside them again with a new IE3D, that is almost, but not quite, compatible with the standard. This will put the beards into meltdown (as with HTML) as they will feel violated if they have to follow someone elses lead and not the "right way".
But this time its looking different. Google have not shown a strong desire to follow standards bodies. Anyone that looks at a Gmail page will realize that disability access and XHTML standards were not on the agenda. Delivery of working product was.
I await the nu style with interest....
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9211/ddj050201dnn/
Seems to me that only C# will remain, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
I played with the Avalon preview, and I suspect that it is very much as the man says: a new markup language for a browser. The starkest thing about the .Net readme's was the admission that .Net Forms was now "done and no longer under development". The next starkest thing was that all the Avalon samples were only really available in C#, not VB.
Avalon also looks hugely complicated, and seems to involve lots of work to do anything. I wonder if already is suffering from the bloat that killed .Net. My current conspiracy theory favourite is a friend's: Google and MS are both working towards a new 3D visualisation browser. This is where all those OS people from MS are going in Google. Firefox man and IE man working hand in hand over the next browser tech. Apparently there are numerous standards out there, and obviously MS want to have the dominant force. If the Opensource crew are so stupid as to argue about standards, MS can come in and blindside them again with a new IE3D, that is almost, but not quite, compatible with the standard. This will put the beards into meltdown (as with HTML) as they will feel violated if they have to follow someone elses lead and not the "right way".
But this time its looking different. Google have not shown a strong desire to follow standards bodies. Anyone that looks at a Gmail page will realize that disability access and XHTML standards were not on the agenda. Delivery of working product was.
I await the nu style with interest....
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