Comments on: Microsoft releases second Acrylic preview

By: Etnu

Etnu — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 05:45:50 +0000

The coolest part about this is that by the time Vista actually ships, they’ll have at LEAST 5 or 10 years of experience in this market.

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 01:06:51 +0000

An added export feature is one thing–Acrylic will indeed be capable of producing design elements for Windows Vista user interfaces–but a complete repurposing and renaming of the product is another. I have no idea where Ars Technica is getting that.

By: KObserver

KObserver — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:03:55 +0000

I found this other tool on the web tool that generates XAML: Aurora. It’s free to download at http://www.mobiform.com.

By: jrickards

jrickards — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:06:48 +0000

On the Acrylic page you link to, it says

With Windows Vista, designers and developers can work together to build applications that deliver a superior user experience, and enhance user productivity and satisfaction.

Acrylic supports the creation of graphic designs for export to the XAML file format, the declarative markup language used to describe application user interface elements and rich content (such as 2-D, 3-D, text, animation, video, etc.) for the Windows Presentation Foundation.

which seems to suggest that Ars Technica is correct because of the above quote’s reference to building applications and Windows Presentation Foundation. I don’t know much about Vista or WPF but to me, the inference is there.