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!

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