[IxDA Discuss] Is anybody using Microsoft Expression Blend

[Nasir Barday]

Yah, we're on the same page, Mark :-).

With the workflow that MS Expression suggests, it's much more tempting to
turn the design prototype into the final product. In fact, I don't even see
a prototype stage in their suggested process, now that I think about it.
Scary.

Or is that the intention after all? Maybe the feeling is that the XAML code
generated by designers won't be that inefficient after all, since it's
relatively straightforward and declarative. But as we all know, developer
code is *markedly* different given prototype vs. production contexts.

- Nasir


On 3/6/07, David Malouf <dave.ixd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I also think that you will find that the interface for blend will get
> the same reaction from developers that Flash does.
>
> BTW, there is nothing in Blend (or Flash for that matter) that a
> developer can't do in notepad by hand coding XAML or ActionScript, so
> they can do this already.
>
> These tool for the most part doesn't speak to their desire to stay in
> text mode.This is why Adobe went in a whole new direction with Flex
> and made it a developer IDE.
>
> -- dave
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