Out of curiosity, I loaded up a FeedBack created by the SketchFlow player into Notepad. For more on this feature, check out Figure 15 on this blog post.
Much to my surprise (and geekish delight), the entire file is in XML.
Here’s a brief snippet:
xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<ApplicationFeedback xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" SchemaVersion="1">
<SketchFlowGuid>20e0b4f7-b3ea-4af7-900b-4161414f8022SketchFlowGuid>
<ScreenFeedback>
<FeedbackData>
<Screen>SilverlightSIGScreens.Screen_1_1Screen>
<ModificationTime>2009-08-26T23:29:58.579ZModificationTime>
<Author>Frank LaVigneAuthor>
<AuthorInitials>FLAuthorInitials>
<TextEntries>
<Text>Branding!Text>
TextEntries>
<Ink>
<Strokes>
<Stroke>
<StylusPoints>
<Point>
<X>-272X>
<Y>-214Y>
Point>
<Point>
<X>-273X>
<Y>-214Y>
Point>
It’s all there, the written text and the serialized Ink data.
The file format is readily understandable.
Imagine the possibilities for a feedback mash-up application with this data.
Perhaps, an RSS feed when stakeholders submit feedback that populates a ticker or a screensaver/kiosk application.
How about running handwriting and/or shape recognition against the ink?
So many ideas..