Information Overload
I don't know about you but today has been a total information overload for me...
Ok, so let start at the beginning... Mix '08 started yesterday and with it came loads of new releases:
- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
- Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Runtime
- Silverlight 2 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 and SDK
- Source Code / Unit Tests for Silverlight 2 Controls
- Expression Studio 2 Beta (contains Blend, Design, Encoder, Media and Web)
- Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview
Here are all the links
Want to see what Silverlight 2.0 can do? Have a look at the awesome demo by AOL. Thy made a Silverlight 2.0 client for their mail service. It is skinnable (Cool Halo 3 skin), super fast (uses isolated storage for local caching) and much more...
It is available here
What is DeepZoom? a new Silverlight feature based on the Seadragon research project that provides scalable image zooming - you can take a 2 billion pixel image, and zoom right into it without downloading gigabytes of pixel data locally. You can also use this to filter many images and navigate around them. Showing how this is used for the Hard Rock website to navigate throughout their memorabilia. This Silverlight 2 site is live right now, here: http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/.
Their is also a video interview with the developers of this site available here
What's new in IE 8?
- CSS 2.1
- CSS Certification
- Performance
- HTML 5 early support
- Developer tools
- Activities
- WebSlices
Here is a video that demos the activities and WebSlices!
Also keep an I on this website, all the sessions will be posted here 24 hours after it happened... The first should be posted later today!
And it doesn't stop at mix, Josh Smith has released the much anticipated Podder V2 (Including a great skin created by visual designer Grant Hinkson)
Here is the official notice on Josh and Grant's websites and here is the CodeProject article. The article also include a video demo of Podder. I have to say I absolutely love the new skin... The coolest feature is the dynamic changing of the background color based on the average color of the current selected podcast's image!!! Very cool stuff... The article also talks about structural skinning, dynamic loading skins, etc...
[UPDATE] IdentityMine has also released 2 new products: Blendables Layout Mix and Blendables 3D Mix!
