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Dmitry Baranovskiy — Start using web vector graphics today

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• By: jessie
• June 19, 2008
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Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 25 10.45am.

With the growth of inter­ac­tiv­ity in web appli­ca­tions we are push­ing Javascript to its lim­its, not to men­tion the lim­its of HTML and CSS. And so we spend our days resort­ing to Flash, wait­ing for that dis­tant time when browser sup­port for CSS3 will come to our res­cue and allow us to cre­ate the UIs we dream of. But this is not the way it has to be: there is a lit­tle known secret weapon right here in most mod­ern browsers. Yes, even in IE6.

Dmitry Baranovskiy is here to tell you about Canvas, SVG and VML. Come along and be amazed by stan­dards based UI wiz­ardry you can start imple­ment­ing in projects right here, right now.

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Andre Charland & Walter Smith – Developing With Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight

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• By: jessie
• February 12, 2008
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A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 31 2008.

Crash Course in Adobe AIR

There comes a time when web devel­op­ers need to reach beyond the browser to allow users to go offline, use local files or get rid of the hideous browser chrome. The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is an up an com­ing run­time tech­nol­ogy that allows desk­top appli­ca­tions to be devel­oped with HTML, JavaScript, Flash or Flex. The AIR run­time and SDK are com­pletely free so any­one can get started immediately.

Andre Charland will will give an overview or AIR, the APIs you get access to and how to build a sim­ple Flex and HTML appli­ca­tion with it. From there we will explore some of the tools avail­able to make AIR devel­op­ment eas­ier and faster. We’ll fin­ish up with a few impor­tant usabil­ity guide­lines and real world case stud­ies of AIR projects.

A real world overview of Silverlight

Seattle-​​based Jackson Fish Market helped deliver the Silverlight based search engine Tafiti, one of the ear­li­est com­mer­cial Silverlight applications.

In this pre­sen­ta­tion, Jackson Fish Market co-​​founder Walter Smith will give us a detailed overview of Microsoft’s RIA tech­nol­ogy Silverlight. We’ll learn from Walter’s first hand expe­ri­ence the strengths and weak­nesses of the plat­form, and see real world exam­ples of what Silverlight can be used to achieve.

If you are look­ing to eval­u­ate RIA frame­works, or just get a sense of the emerg­ing RIA land­scape, this ses­sion will prove invaluable.

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