New vector-based user-interface and control-design technologies promise to let both developers and designers work with vector rather than raster graphics—but will they agree to cooperate in a new, much more interactive, application development process as their tools converge?
by Bill Woodruff
June 20, 2006
odern computer hardware and powerful graphics cards, now found in even 'budget' systems, support a new level of rapid rendering of more high-level descriptions of objects and dynamic response to interaction with them. A variant of XML, XAML, has emerged as the Microsoft syntax for describing the form and visual state of controls and user interfaces, and the links to executable code that let users interact with them in an application.
The leaps-off-the-page benefit of vector-based controls is visually accurate scaling on a wide range of display devices. Graphic designers and developers may be able to interact in new ways that increase productivity when they can rapidly exchange interface design in the software development cycle.
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odern computer hardware and powerful graphics cards, now found in even 'budget' systems, support a new level of rapid rendering of more high-level descriptions of objects and dynamic response to interaction with them. A variant of XML, XAML, has emerged as the Microsoft syntax for describing the form and visual state of controls and user interfaces, and the links to executable code that let users interact with them in an application.
