Thursday, October 30, 2003

I've been thinking about Microsoft's recent announcement of Longhorn's XAML development mark-up and I think this will be a welcome move by many front-end developers who don't necessarily want to get their hands dirty with C# and VB. Now I haven't researched into this but I'm presuming that using XAML, designers who are fond of tinkering with the odd bit of XML will now have a new creative outlet by way of Windows interface development. All the coding can be undertaken by a seasoned developer meaning there is a seperation of the two processes. This is similar to how developers and designers are working now with Flash projects, leave the designer to do his job and not worry about the ColdFusion/ASP/PHP interfacing which can be coded seperately by the developer. The only problem is that we have to wait another few years to see the new Operating System.

Jon 3:23 PM Permalink