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RE: Inside Redhell: Microsoft XAML Blogger Round-Up

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• Subject: RE: Inside Redhell: Microsoft XAML Blogger Round-Up
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:26:00 -0500
• In-reply-to: <006801c3a894$50ba5200$650aa8c0@BOBDEV>

bob@w... (Bob Wyman) writes:
>Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>> The advent of the World Wide Web posed several challenges 
>> for designers. ... However, when pages were viewed using 
>> the World Wide Web, it was impossible to predict the size 
>> of the window in which the document would be viewed
>   I get awful tired of people suggesting that the Web was the
>first time problem "X" appeared or that the "web solution" is somehow
>different from stuff we did years earlier.

Just to clarify, the Longhorn documentation folks at MSFT wrote that...
I didn't.

All I was doing was pointing out a case in which MSFT seemed to make it
very clear that they are in fact competing with HTML and CSS.

For a followup, here's part of the para that followed the original
quote:
-------------------------
The adaptive-flow-format calculations are optimized for best readability
and faithful design rendering, in that order. As a result, the design
specifications given to the AdaptiveMetricsContext are more flexible
than the specifications that many designers are used to providing in
HTML or CSS.
-------------------------

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Simon St.Laurent
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