A quick update on two items on which I reported yesterday. CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica today quotes John Case, general manager of Microsoft's developer division as saying that Microsoft will add offline capabilities to Silverlight "eventually": "It's something that we will want to do," Case said in an interview on Monday. "Eventually, customers will expect … Continue reading Rumor Updates: Eventually. Maybe.
Author: Kendall Whitehouse
Pre-MIX Mishmash
MIX -- which is more or less Microsoft's version of Adobe's MAX -- is just around the corner and the rumors are flying regarding potential announcements around Microsoft's Web application strategy (or, perhaps more accurately, "strategies"). Ryan Stewart cites Michael Arrington's TechCrunch post speculating that Microsoft may announce offline capabilities for Silverlight. Stewart correctly clarifies … Continue reading Pre-MIX Mishmash
Microformats: A New Hope
Two events this past week could help to expand the deployment of microformats. Microformats are a clever way of getting from the Web we know today to a more meaningful "semantic" Web, without breaking what works now. By adding simple extensions to existing tags, you can use HTML to communicate not only the presentation of … Continue reading Microformats: A New Hope
Adobe Engage 2008 and Why AIR
Adobe Systems yesterday hosted "Engage 2008", an event somewhere between a press presentation and a customer feedback session. As I posted yesterday, AIR and Flex 3 were officially launched the same day. Adobe also unveiled opensource.adobe.com, a Web portal for the company's open source activities both as a producer (Flex SDK, Tamarin, BlazeDS) and an … Continue reading Adobe Engage 2008 and Why AIR
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