I have my first pass at a Silverlight-based SearchTIP working.
SearchTIP is a webpage that enables you to handwrite search queries in the browser. My previous incarnation of this tool was ActiveX based. Because it was written as an ActiveX control, the code was limited to Windows and IE (for the most part, although there was a workaround for Firefox), which isn’t ideal.
With Silverlight, the query page can now run in IE and Firefox on Windows and Firefox and Safari on the Mac. (Silverlight doesn’t support Linux.) You can use a Tablet PC, UMPC, standalone digitizing pad, a mouse, or other pointing device to write your text. The recognition is done via a server-side component, which currently I have running on my own development machine. I’ll have to see what I can do about deploying a public version of this on a server so that other developers can see how server-side recognition can be done.
I’ll see what I can do. Layne? Any ideas?