WPF session

Today I attended to a WPF session. All good until we ended up discussing the applicability of WPF. The audience noted that internet is not open to innovation. I tried to convince the crowd that, actually, the opposite is true, especially if you look at the adoption of RSS. To some RSS and XAML are completely different kinds of things although they both are declarative XML-based languages. Another issue that popped up is related to standards. Yes, the drawback to WPF/E is that it’s not going to be WPF for other platforms. It will certainly provide some good functionality, but it will lack the more impressive features of WPF. And although Flex 2 and Apollo lag behind, the cross platform support is a significant advantage. In the end, time will tell how innovation will drive these technologies forward. From the positive side of things, it is great to unleash the innovator in all of us to provide an even better user experience! Even for our, rather dull, administrative applications :D