{"id":129,"date":"2008-03-22T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T11:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/03\/22\/look-for-ribbon-in-a-windows-7-application-near-you.aspx"},"modified":"2008-03-22T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T11:24:10","slug":"look-for-ribbon-in-a-windows-7-application-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Look for Ribbon in a Windows 7 application near you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The people who are drafting the new user interface guidelines for Windows 7 plan to build the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ribbon_%28computing%29\">Ribbon<\/a>, Jewel and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153other new UI concepts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d natively into the Windows platform. <\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, they want software developers to avoid the prehistoric <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Win32#Overview\">Win32 UI framework<\/a> from no other than Windows 95. Instead, use this new lightweight and high performance markup-based UI framework to build \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rich, graphics and animated user interfaces\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The Ribbon and Jewel (button in the top left corner) will be a part of this new framework. It sounds very much like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Presentation_Foundation\">WPF<\/a>, except native. <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20080322\/ribbon-in-windows-7-application-near-you\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20080322\/ribbon-in-windows-7-application-near-you\/\">http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20080322\/ribbon-in-windows-7-application-near-you\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people who are drafting the new user interface guidelines for Windows 7 plan to build the Ribbon, Jewel and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153other new UI concepts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d natively into the Windows platform. Ultimately, they want software developers to avoid the prehistoric Win32 UI framework from no other than Windows 95. Instead, use this new lightweight and high performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}