{"id":302,"date":"2006-12-05T12:43:17","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T18:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/05\/wpfe-the-return-of-the-browser-plugin\/"},"modified":"2006-12-05T12:43:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T18:43:17","slug":"wpfe-the-return-of-the-browser-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/05\/wpfe-the-return-of-the-browser-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"WPF\/E: The Return Of The Browser Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Microsoft released their first public preview version of their <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=77792&clcid=0x409\">WPF\/E plugin<\/a> (WPF\/E = Windows Presentation Format Everywhere).  WPF\/E is the web-version of <a href=\"graphical subsystem\">WPF<\/a>, which is Microsoft's new graphical framework, available in Vista.  WPF\/E is a direct competitor of Adobe's Flash and other open standards based approaches like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/SVG11\/index.html\">SVG<\/a>.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/googleads.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Microsoft is giving the shaft to the Linux user base by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/More+than+meets+the+eye+in+Microsoft+plan\/2100-1012_3-6053893.html\">not providing a plugin<\/a> for said platform.  As the dated link mentions, they are relying on third parties to write plugins for those \"oh-so-obscure\" platforms.  Great that shouldn't take too long ... sigh ...<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has a very long, uphill battle against the mightily entrenched Adobe.  Couple this with the facts that they are not supporting the Linux space and do not seem to be working to support a fine browser like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/\">Opera<\/a> (WPF\/E an ActiveX control and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/support\/search\/supsearch.dml?index=415\">Opera doesn't support ActiveX<\/a> - someone tell me I'm wrong, will WPF\/E eventually be done as a Netscape plugin?) means that Microsoft will have a hard time gaining the hearts and minds of die-hard web developers: it's not a true cross-browser, cross-platform solution (much less than Flash is, in fact).  I think if anything, they can only steal curious developers from Adobe and gain converts from Window app developers.  Perhaps the occasional frustrated web developer who gives up the standards religion out of frustration \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplegeek.com\/mharsh\/videoplayer\/\">Here's a videoplayer<\/a> that someone put together, looks pretty nice - maybe an eventual competitor to Flash's video support.  You will need <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=77792&clcid=0x409\">the plugin<\/a> and either Internet Explorer or Firefox 1.5+.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/googleads.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Microsoft released their first public preview version of their WPF\/E plugin (WPF\/E = Windows Presentation Format Everywhere). WPF\/E is the web-version of WPF, which is Microsoft&#8217;s new graphical framework, available in Vista. 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