20070105
A Screenshot of Trillian Astra (for the Mac and the Web)
This is ecstatic!!
Can you tell which one is in vector and which one is in bitmap? Cordonata is designed in Adobe Illustrator from ground up, so the conversion has been easy. Scale9Grid feature of Flash 8+ played a pivotal role in composing these windows. It took a week or two of experiment, however, to get bitmaps to scale properly in Flash. Since Flash does not support blurring and drop shadows without turning shapes into movieclips, I used a lot of the ancient "Soften Fill Edges" feature to get my way. The feature turns out to be incredibly effective and shaved lots of KBs off the window, ensuring a fast load for our dear new web users.
Although it is internally codenamed "Express", it is not a separate product unlike, e.g. AIM vs AIM Express, but instead a subset of the grand vision umbrella-ed under Trillian Astra. :)
For more information and signing up for testing, the brand new Trillian Astra web site says it all!
posted by Pak-Kei Mak at 3:15 PM
5 Comments:
Your work is always awesome. The web interface is astounding.
9/1/07 15:14
I can't get the new builds to work on this older laptop, but my computer should be back sometime this week so i can't wait :) That means i can finally use Astra again!
4/2/07 01:30
Oh man, I just discovered the sneak peek of Astra a couple weeks ago, and I'm already foaming at the mouth to be able to use it! Whenever it's finially released to the public, it will be a happy day for me :)
12/2/07 11:08
update!!
15/2/07 15:30
Good Work. One question has been bothering me all along. I know that Astra can be used from the Web. Is Trillian Astra going to be offered for MAC users as a installable client?
2/3/07 16:25
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