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Microsoft to Automate Avalon Coding With Sparkle

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Posted 05 November 2003 - 08:18 PM

Watch out, Macromedia. Here comes Microsoft "Sparkle."

According to press reports, Sparkle is an animation toolset that will likely emerge as part of the Longhorn wave of products/technologies. Some are describing Sparkle as a Macromedia "Flash killer."

Microsoft officials declined to comment on Sparkle. But here's what we hear:

Microsoft's graphics subsystem for Longhorn is code-named "Avalon." Avalon is designed to take the place of the USER/GDI graphics application programming interfaces (APIs) that are part of the current Win32 programming model.

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Posted 06 November 2003 - 10:48 AM

Microsoft tried this before and it failed miserably. Anyone else remember 'Liquid Motion'?
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Post icon  Posted 06 November 2003 - 05:09 PM

Nice article explication AH! Good added information ldonyo, helps with some background for the less initiated. Thank you both. Dragonfly

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