SVG Girl IE9 HTML5 Promo
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If you’re going to resort to raster graphics at least do a better job hanging that apostrophe in the word “it’s”.
It's brilliant marketing!
Works just fine with Chrome (beta channel) here on my Macbook Pro 5,5. Quite fluid too, except for the "floating mountain part". Certainly more than 10fps average.
In Apple's defense, their demos do work (mainly) in all WebKit based browsers.
I mean, sure, it's a tech demo, and a damn impressive one at that. But what's it showing off? Those of us who know why it's technically impressive know that it's never going to be worth it to do anything of this scale. Those of us who don't don't see any difference between this and, say, a flash video.
Regardless of whatever it is that I'm missing, this is fantastic. I can't even imagine just how difficult this would have been to make.
It's showing off that SVG movie playback is there, and that we killed the chicken and egg problem of another area of Flash: now we only need authoring tools whereas before who would build SVG authoring tools when there was no player?
Which brings us to how difficult it could have been to be made, as it really comes down to what authoring tools they did use. Interestingly enough, after the animation they offer a "simple mode" to trivially alter colors of the animation.
I see it as a strong signal of: - cross-browser compatibility went a step further. - one more thing we don't need a proprietary crashing blob anymore as there is an open alternative. I was also pleasantly surprised at how well it played on my Mac and Chrome. It was a bit slow at start on Firefox 4, and was (surprisingly to me) even faster than Chrome on Safari.
Is this what the marketing department thinks tech-savvy people are into?
EDIT: I mistakenly thought this was made by Microsoft; of course a more careful reading on my part would have made it obvious that it is not.
(Broadly, on the intersection of tech and geeky, for any value of "geeky" be it anime subcultures or D&D, it is an inevitable consequence of "scratch your own itch" that tech overallocates resources to the fields of interest techy people are likely to have versus those they are not likely to have, which will tend to reproduce similarly lopsided distribution in the future. This is profitably exploitable. Exploit it.)
I love the business hustle view at the end of your comment, though!
Microsoft is nothing if not consistent(ly bad).
They were technically impressive in what they were able to achieve, but it was technology no one was ever going to (and never did to my knowledge) use.
Minus the IE9 politics, I kinda liked that.
Felt a little "Witch Hunter Robin" meets "GITS SAC".
and 100% more creepy near-upskirt camera angles.
Then says "I. E. nine ..." and I don't get the remainder.