Comments on: MIX Judging

By: Molly

Molly — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:12:40 +0000

Microsoft is showing a lot of interest regarding HTML5. I’ll be doing a full-day workshop at MIX and clearly Eric’s involvement in this is positive – to be honest, quite a few standards evangelists have been involved with MIX over the years. The conference really does try to “mix it up” as the name implies.

What’s more, there are several very strong open standards-oriented people at Microsoft. I know we all remain frustrated with IE6, but at least the company is keeping more open than a few of its “competitors.”

In re: AJAX – specifically if you’re using XMLHttpRequest, you might recall that this was introduced by Microsoft in Internet Explorer 4.0 and made freely available for the W3C to spec out.

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:35:33 +0000

Beth: same here, which is why I agreed to be a judge.

Scott: I don’t know myself, but I think the answer is yes.

Nate: it’s possible that you’re right. On the other hand, if they take that tack, lots of people will point out what you’re saying about the interface stuff in the package and so on. Very likely I’d be among them. There could even be a counter-contest: what can you build with standards that’s smaller than the Silverlight package? That might be a lot of fun, actually…

By: Nate Bundy

Nate Bundy — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:24:35 +0000

You know, maybe it’s just the cynic in me and I’m being stupid, but somehow I think Microsoft is going to try and turn this into a “look how much better Silverlight apps are than everything else for less size” kind of deal.

Think of the amount of CSS and images needed to make a nice web interface. Yes, some very clever design and you can get a very nice looking interface with next to no images, but Silverlight has a bunch of extra interface stuff included in their package that won’t count toward the 10K.

Hopefully I’m wrong, and I suppose there is enough CSS3 in 3 out of the 5 browsers that perhaps it would be easier to pull some things off than I think.

By: Scott Reynen

Scott Reynen — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:47:04 +0000

It’s not clear to me from reading the rules, are AJAX calls allowed?

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:52:04 +0000

Very susprised and happy to see they didn’t limit eligibility to MS proprietary technologies!