I attended tonight's CMAP meeting, with a presentation on HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript. The meeting was well-attended, perhaps the best attendance I have seen. Apparently lots of Microsoft tech fans are interested in the subject.
And they should be. Microsoft let the cat out of the bag earlier this year, announcing that their new development platform supported HTML5 and Javascript. (That announcement may have been premature, but the direction seems correct.)
Tonight's meeting was about HTML5 and CSS3 and Javascript, and had very little about Microsoft tools. (It was given by a Microsoft employee and evangelist, so it seems credible.) The programming paradigm of HTML5 and CSS3 is very different from the old world of WPF and XAML. It is not specific to Windows or Internet Explorer -- it is cross-platform.
Interestingly, the presenter mentioned "inkscape" as a tool for experimenting with SVG. (Apparently Microsoft has no SVG editor.)
We are in a new world, a world of multiple technologies and multiple environments. Mobile phones, tablets, desktops, and servers all interact as part of your system. This new configuration is bigger than any one company.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment