mix09 keynote news review

MIX09 Keynote NewsIMPACT & EFFECT

•Silverlight 3

•Expression Blend 3

•IE8

•SuperPreview

•Sketchflow

Silverlight 3H.264 support at last!

Add your own Media Codecs

Adaptive Streaming

Silverlight 3Bitmap effects

Drop Shadow

Pixel shading

Magnification

Silverlight 3Perspective 3D

Easing Animations Built in

Ditching Silverlight 2 DLLs

Silverlight 3Plane Projection

Pixel Shading

Incorporated features

Silverlight 3Communication between Browser Instances

Dynamic Skinning

System Colours

ClearType text compatibility

Silverlight 3Multi-Touch support

MASSIVE changes

Expression Blend 3No need for Visual Studio

Coding within Blend

Expression Blend 3Import of PhotoShop PSD Files

IE8 ReleasedWeb Slices

Accelerators

Cross-Browser Compatibility FTW!

Preview and compare: Any OS Any Browser

No More VM’s or VPC’s

SuperPreview

Standalone App available Now

SketchFlowRapid Prototyping

New workflow

UI Iterations

SketchFlowUse of ‘States’

Stakeholder feedback

Productivity FTW!

SketchFlowPSD Previews!

Mouse Gesture Behaviours

What does this mean for us?

SWAG Comp!