Microsoft's First iPhone Application | The Coffeehouse

VB Man
Year of the Linux MCE.

http://livelabs.com/blog/seadragon-goes-mobile/

I will be patiently awaiting an "Office For iPhone".

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

It's pretty neat. I had sort of a slight hope that this was the start of Silverlight mobile, but I suppose it's all done in AJAX.

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Have you tried it yet? It's pretty slick... performance is very good and zooming/panning around images works well with the iPhone touchscreen.

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In reply to Bas

#Dec 14th, 2008 @ 2:36 PM

It's a native app, not AJAX, and MS seems to have ported over the same progressive downloading and rendering algorithms they use in the desktop versions of Seadragon/Deep Zoom/Photosynth.

I wouldn't expect to see Silverlight on the iPhone anytime soon, though. Apple has strictly prohibited any applications that allow the user to run any kind of scripting or anything (which means no Flash, Java, or Silverlight).

magicalclick

Interesting, I think SeaDragon is based on AJAX to begin with. But really though, iPhone is way better than WM both on multi-touch and graphics. I really hope MS invests more on WM after Win7 is out.

VB Man
Year of the Linux MCE.

In reply to CannotResolveSymbol

#Dec 14th, 2008 @ 2:43 PM

Yep.

My favorites :

Every single one in the Space category and the Sea dragon logo. The Sea Dragon logo is the only one that I've found that is 'infinite'. I want to view photos from Photosynth but it is taking to long to load the list.