British Library’s Turning Pages
The launch of a new OS always brings cool applications to demonstrate its capability. For Windows Vista one of the most impressive applications to be demo’ed at the UK launch event was the British Library’s Turning Pages application. An application exploiting Windows Presentation Foundation for impressive graphics and animations, and delivered ‘through the web’ to run directly on your PC.
This web application (it runs directly inside IE7) lets you browse through books that are hundreds of years old like you were sitting at a table in the library. This is an excellent example of what is possible with Windows Vista and more precisely, Windows Presentation Foundation. As long as you have .NET Framework 3.0 installed you can also run this web app on Windows XP.
Check out the British Library’s Turning Pages.
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