Monday, May 10, 2010

UI Frontiers - Thinking Outside the Grid

Canvas vs. Grid ... This May 2010, MSDN Magazine article, by Charles Petzold, caught my attention. It was timely. I've been reading "Force-based Network Visualization", 31st January 2010, in F# .NET Journal, which I subscribe to (and recommend). I noted that Canvas was used in the "viz' function, also a "worker" thread is used to animate.  I hadn't seen/noticed Canvas used before. Browsing previous articles reviewing "viz" functions, trying to understand the motivation and tradeoffs ...

UI Frontiers - Thinking Outside the Grid