Longhorn capabilities: Looking at document scrolling

One of the cool new features that is going to be available in Longhorn was the thumbnail page of the document that shows up next to the scrollbar. It was captured in a photograph from Paul Thurrott's WinSuperSite.

This shows the mouse arrow moving across the scroll bar and the thumbnail appearing which is based upon the page that would appear at that scrollbar position. The cool thing about the thumbnails (using Aero) would be that the actual image of page would appear INCLUDING images and even running VIDEOS!!!! In fact, in this shot, it was a video that was showing in the thumbnail (without sound).

Do you use plugins?

Like most I have been watching the Eolas patent situation quite closely as we use a ton of plugins at Reuters (as most do) and this would GREATLY effect our applications. Basically - a group has proven in court that they own the patent for plugging stuff into a browser. So that means that they own the patent to the technology that plugs in things like ActiveX, Java Applets, Flash, Quicktime and more. WOW you say! That's what I said. They already won a lawsuit against Microsoft (being appealed) and this is causing Microsoft to change how IE works! If you pay attention to anything news-wise in technology this year - pay attention to this. It was good to see that Tim Berners-Lee issued a statement to the USPTO Director demanding a review of the patent. Let's hope logical heads prevail and the USPTO office does just that!

Robert Scoble Sums it Up

Robert Scoble sums up Longhorn pretty dang well in this post.
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