Nick Thuesen just outed his WPF application, the New York Times reader in WPF. It sounds great, and I assume would deliever a great experience. Why? Text in WPF rules. Easy to read, clean and flows thanks to the FlowDocumentPageViewer. Between the Times and the BBC it looks like we are going to see news delievered in a whole new way in Vista. I just wish that they wouldn't wait until Vista (I assume). This would be cool on a UMPC. Remember it can handle WPF.
Another nice thing about this is that a newspaper could change how they do classified ads. They could still have the old style text ads (which are easy to quickly scan) and then when you click on the add you could get some sweet content right there in the ad. Here's the scenario, you're looking for a 3 bedroom house in the burbs, there's an ad that fits your needs to live in the burbs and has 3 bedrooms. You click the ad and a video walk tour of the house plays. That would rock. And it wouldn't be intrusive like banner ads and it wouldn't be dumb text. Hey, if someone patents this ad idea, add my name!
Very nice work Nick. When is it going to be available?
Sean
Tags: XAML | WPF