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December 1, 2006
The incarnification of potentialities
The incarnification of potentialities: Lee Brimelow posted a simple SWF animation, side-by-side with a Microsoft XAML/WPF copy. The result was that the SWF animation played many times before the WPF even finished initializing. I care less about this particular result than about the conversational dynamics.. over the last few years' talk about XAML and vectors and plugin ports and what-all, there was never much real discussion about the practicalities of startup time in a webpage. It's easy enough to talk about particular features of a technology, but harder to figure how the entire technology will eventually fit into real peoples' lives. As the stuff becomes real, only then do we see what it actually is.
Posted by JohnDowdell at December 1, 2006 2:58 PM