[Sigia-l] Intelligent signs at Microsoft

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This is a perennial quest here: how does one turn wireframes, UI prototypes,
etc., done in a drawing app like Illustrator directly into functional
markup, thereby eliminating the step where programmers essentially recreate
the drawings.

Behold:

<http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2005/07/12/438178.aspx>

Michael Swanson at Microsoft (OK, on his own at nights) figured out a way to
output XAML from Illustrator. XAML is MSFT's declarative markup language
(like XUL in Moz and MXML in Flash/Flex) that'll drive graphics in the
upcoming Longhorn/Vista.

So if MSFT actually figures out the next intelligent step and can plug in
Illustrator output into XAML coding/authoring IDE, things would be
interesting, to say the least.

Ziya
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