Don Park: As you can see, JavaFX script (*.fx) is basically JSON-like version of XAML which can be either compiled into Java bytecode or run as is using a java-based JavaFX player. Since JavaFX is just java, it can run as applets in browsers, midlets on mobiles, and applications on WebStart
Superficially, while JavaFX does appear JSON-like (with bits of LINQ tossed in), the underlying Canvas object model (“a 2D vector graphics scene-graph model with a declarative API similar to SVG”) is a somewhat clunky. Compare intertwingly.fx against the original intertwingly.svg. This verbosity will inhibit the growth of Inkscape like tools that are vital to the ecosystem.
While Silverlight can be directly embedded in an HTML page, JavaFX can only indirectly be embedded via an applet. Additionally, JavaFX can embed HTML as a String. This isn’t as limiting as it might sound as JavaFX Strings not only support interpolation, but also support incremental and lazy evaluation:
Attributes initialized with bind are akin to cells in a spreadsheet that contain formulas rather than literal values. During the lifetime of the object containg the attribute, whenever any of the objects referenced by the right hand side of the initializer expression changes the left hand side (the attribute’s value) is automatically updated.
In my opinion, such dynamic behavior is the true sleeper feature in JavaFX that others will incorporate over time.
I’m not sure I understand the point of the comparison between intertwingly.fx and .svg as the difference in verbosity seemed minimal to me and I can’t see how it would have a big affect tools.
I’m not sure I understand the point of the comparison between intertwingly.fx and .svg as the difference in verbosity seemed minimal to me and I can’t see how it would have a big affect tools.
I initially tried to build a JavaFX version of duke.svg, but gave up out of exhaustion.
That blog entry is interesting. While the F3 SVG browser does a reasonable job of rendering my duke.svg, it refuses to divulge the equivalent fx that is required.
Additionally, it seems to not handle the gradients correctly in my intertwingly.svg.
is it a known issue that most of your pages don’t load in IE7? I don’t normally use it so I don’t know if this is recent — it does mean I can’t see your sl demos.
1. While JavaFX is more verbose than SVG, I think one can build a JavaFX library that allows graphics representation more compact than SVG.
2. One can build SVG to JavaFX translator much more easily than one could build JavaFX to SVG. The difference is XML versus a proprietary format.
3. I don’t see an easy way to ‘process’ JavaFX without instantiating because where, if XAML is data masquerading as code, JavaFX is code masquerading as data.
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