Tafiti: Ganske nydelig, men...

Microsoft i USA har nu annonceret en ny mobile browser, "deepfish" som kan køre på windows mobile devices og sandsynligvis også de ny Nokia symbian 60 devices der understøtter windows mobile 6.0...jeg vender tilbage når jeg ved mere (skal lige snakke med Nokia) . Imidlertid har en af mine Amerikanske kolleger testet deepfish på en HTC smartphone, og du kan læse hans report her...der følger en vido med på linket:https://on10.net/Blogs/larry/exclusive-video-new-mobile-web-browser--deepfish/

Scott

Sorry to quash the irrational exuberance of suspected Zune and Halo 3 announcements, but this one is still big and you're getting it early. There’s a new web browser in town for Windows Mobile fans that goes by the name Deepfish. It runs technology borrowed from Sea Dragon, the imaging engine behind Photosynth.

It’s free and you won’t have to wait for an update to be pushed out through your cellular carrier to get it, you can download it now.

A bit about me and my phone: I’m a former diehard Sidekick user. I see a lot of people speculating about this phone and that phone, whether it will have map integration, GPS, games, MP3/video player, still/video camera, a nice graphics frontend, a good web browsing experience, and an open development platform. While they dream and speculate, I’m enjoying all of that right now.

I’ve got an HTC 8525 (w/ 2GB memory). Seamlessly syncing with my desktop Outlook, it’s the last thing I look at before going to bed (to see my schedule the next day), and the first thing I look at in the morning (as an alarm and to check email.) I can use a Bluetooth GPS to find my way around, and I have a similar Virtual Earth experience that I enjoy on my computer. I even see dynamic overlays of traffic, which is important if you live in a big city. I have a great interface when I turn it on, and now with Deepfish I have a great web experience with it too.

Because Windows Mobile is an open platform, I have Voice Control, VoIP, RSS reader, fullscreen touch keyboard, FTP client, my choice of instant messengers, and I can choose from thousands of other applications to fit any need I might have (or you could write your own, but that's for those Channel 9 guys.) I can stream all my videos, music and pictures from my home computer to my phone on the road. There are more games than I’ll ever have a chance to try, including a great MahJong game and a pixel perfect port of my favorite game of all time – X-Com. Soon, you'll even be able to use Windows Sidebar Gadgets on your phone.

One little switch opens the battery compartment. I have 3 spares (including a monster wart battery for long flights) and a charger at my desk to rotate them through so I can go days without even thinking about power. In a pinch, I can just plug in a standard old USB cable to charge my phone from any powered USB port.

But this is the best; when I’m on the road I can plug this cellphone up to my laptop to get mobile broadband.

So yes, I'm a Windows Mobile (and Deepfish) fan.

Der er naturligvis en site for downloads af expression, silverlight, og de SL app demos, som bliv vist på seminaret forleden. Prøv følgende link (kræver .net passpart for at logge ind)

Scott

For at komme godt fra start kan du kigge på disse links og downloade de redskaber, du skal bruge for at følge med i nedenstående eksempel:

Download Expression Blend

Download Expression Design

Download Expression Media

Download Silverlight SDK 1.0 – her finder du eksempler samt xaml intellisense for visual studio.

Besøg silverlight.net – her finder du inspiration og debat

Læs Getting started with Silverlight (engelsk)

Læs Silverlight Development with JavaScript (engelsk)

Downloads på følgende link:

https://www.microsoft.com/danmark/msdn/guide/silverlight.mspx

Desværre var Tafiti ikke nævnt på silverlight intro d. 30 Aug men nu ved jeg en hel del mere om silverlight, tror jeg... Jeg har nu fat i MS dk's techtalk ansvarlig, og håber at MS snart arrangere en techtalk om emnet...jeg vender tilbage når jeg har fået tilbagemelding fra MS. Iøvrigt burde du kigge på MS Expression, nu tilgængelig som gratis download, som er en WYSIWYG editor for silverlight apps..ganske nydeligt! Der kommer snart en techtalk om Expression også...

Imidlertid, er der naturligvis en virtual testsite på WWW, hvor du kan afprøve teknologien uden at downloade plugin, så du kan starte der....

mvh

Scott

Microsoft has launched a new website, Tafiti.com, that delivers Windows Live Search in a Silverlight interface. Tafiti, swahili for “do research” or “to search”, is more of an expriment, showing the cool applications and UI that are possible with Silverlight, but it is fully functional, with Live Search, including web search, books search, blog search, news search, and image search. It appears that you have to uninstall the Silverlight 1.1 alpha and re-install the 1.0 Release Candidate to make it run (that’s not getting annoying).

You can drag searches over to the areas on the right side, then, share them with others or your other PCs (or Macs). Each search stacks on a card above the last one. Tafiti uses some pretty cool animation, only possible with Silverlight. There’s a really cool carousel that rotates among search types. The news search uses a very cool newspaper style view.

There’s also this cool tree view, that shows items from the search on a rotating tree. It’s good for a screensaver, and can be clicked to run full screen.

On10 has a video demo of the website.

Check out Tafiti, it’s pretty cool, and it goes to show you what Silverlight is capable of. Five guys built this, so the possibilities are more than there for small teams to do cool things.

Hej Scott

Det lyder godt, jeg ville selv have været til seminaret, men er blevet forhindret. Så jeg glæder mig til at høre mere :-)

// Lars

Der findes flere nyheder i Microsoft's Tafiti søgemaskine der er en overbygning til MS live search baseret på silverlight.

Ideen på at "save" søgninger "across sessions" findes også i google, men at vise det i et træstruktur er noget nyt...nu mangler vi kun 3-D i søgninger...

Desværre kræver det en plugin fra silverlight til at virke, så det vil sige at flere der bruger offentlige terminaler vil ikke kunne bruge det! F.eks. på københavns universitet er de flest terminaler til studerende--ca 30.000 plus VIP og TAP'er lukket for download af ny software, så netop de studerende vill IKKE kunne bruge tafiti indtil systemadministratorene--på et el. andet tidspunkt--vælge at installere plugin!! Dette gælder også de fleste netcafeer, info-kiosker, m.fl. så der vil gå en rum tid inden alle kan bruge tjensten.

Jeg er ved at undersøge de ny muligheder i silverlight, og vil vende tilbage når jeg har været til microsoft seminar d. 30 August vedr. netop silverlight.

Silverlight kan vel næppe installeres i Linux, eller? Måske med brug af Wine, men hvor fedt er det?

/Henriette

Den finder intet i søgninger i min firefox og jeg ser ingen grund til fancy-pancy søgninger - de skal være funktionelle og give mig søgeresultater, som er nemme at overskue.

Desuden er jeg enig med Matt Dickman (https://www.version2.dk/artikel/3690) at det er unødvendigt at lave sådan noget med Silverlight, når Flash er så udbredt, som det er, og kan løse opgaven lige så "fint".

Jeg bliver også på Google.