Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] E4 probably too late?

[Chris Gross <schtoo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there an example app yet for the animation or effects APIs?

regards,
-Chris

Steve Northover wrote:
> Assuming that GC works, they they should work too in a browser.  Also, 
> native widgets on plaforms such as Flex and WPF can do amazing things 
> and e4 is hoping to tap into some of this.  The animation and effects 
> API (portable between Flex, Dojo and WPF) is a first attempt.
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> Andrey Platov schrieb:
>  > Hi Ed,
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>  > As for Jim van Dam's approach, I'd agree - it is not only compelling, 
> it's natural aproach to UI development and similar to JavaFX/UI. The 
> devil in the details: how we will transform higher level UI 
> abstractrions into final representation. Atomic block in "old UI" 
> composition is a widget.  Atomic block in JavaFX/WPF is a 2D graphics 
> primitive. These technologies treat Classical Widget as a composite of 
> lower-level primitives, and these primitives available on every platform 
> (which is not true for Widget-based approach) - just to support Jim van 
> Dam's run everywhere point. This is not conceptual shift, but
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>  > 1) few years ago we were not able to develop such UIs due to CPU/GPU 
> performance limitations (and this was main reason why SWT was born).
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> Well so you suggest that SWT is going away from native widgets drawing
> everything on the GC? I agree with you that there are amazing things one
> can do. Seeing controls like [1] are amazing but the problem I see is
> how to make them cross-platform (e.g. draw them in browser).
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> Tom
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> [1]http://www.hexapixel.com/ribbon/
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