by Don Burnett
Intersoft Solutions has announced a series of Web UI components for Silverlight. These look really slick and their expected release is mid-2007..
Features:
Sirius is based on Silverlight 1.0 RTM to produce high performance and stable user experience. End users will only need to install the small Silverlight 1.0 runtime to use Sirius UI components.
This new and breakthrough UI components deliver richer user experience, by allowing users to interactively navigate and find through the available items. The interactive behaviors and motion-sense are the perfect replica of MacOS X Dock Bar.
In addition to basic behaviors, the UI component is designed with Intersoft's own innovative features and visual effects, such as Spotlight and Reflection effect, Glowing as well as Flippering effect. All effects are highly customizable and combineable.
You can choose the Dock Bar to appear in either one of four screen sides. By simply setting the Dock property, the control will automatically calculate the required positioning, dimension, layout and every details at runtime. You don't need to do any extra efforts such as swapping the Width and Height manually.
"Sirius" UI components are not designed just to have great visual aspects and features. It also take care every little details that Web developer concerned. For instance, the control has full support for 100% width. When you resize the browser, the control will reposition itself according to the new position and dimension in realtime.
You will feel amazed to find out how you can customize every little details and visual aspects of the UI components. Either you want to have a perfect replica of original Mac Dock Bar or the extended behaviors such as the one in Star Dock, or the one in Linux, or perhaps your own style - you can do it all.
As of all Intersoft's components, the Sirius components would have comprehensive client side API using the same manner and approach that developers have familiar with. Although Sirius is based on the brand-new Silverlight technology, it doesn't limit Sirius components to offer great programmability. Some examples, you can change the Docking position at runtime. You can also change the button's text or its image, or just anything else you can imagine.
You may have been asking how Sirius components related with the XAML concept introduced by Silverlight itself. In fact, Sirius introduces ability to incorporate custom XAML in many part of the control's functions. For instance, you can create a custom XAML for the background visual effect, then assign the XAML file in the BackgroundSetting's XamlUrl property. This enables the leverage of original XAML concept exposed by Silverlight and Expression-based product lines.
The final version of "Sirius" will contain several more UI components, besides the one currently demonstrated.
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