I maintain a list of Adaptive Cards projects and resources here:

https://github.com/miguelrochefort/awesome-adaptive-cards

This reminds me of https://jasonette.com/

Very interesting idea because it can be much more platform agnostic then html. Ideally resulting in moving away from the html everywhere, which often means including a separate browser everywhere and non native UIs.

Interesting, seems similar to what Joel is doing here: https://blockprotocol.org

Would be great to see something like catch on for other chat platforms as well (e.g. Slack, Messenger, etc.). Being able to define a UI once for all those would be great.

This is what HTML is for, and if you look at the schema it has many of the same element/container concepts that HTML has.

A subset of HTML designed for easy embedding, possibly removing features and quirks and allowing for a smaller and faster runtime was the goal of the project that directly preceded and led to Flutter. I wish that goal had remained so that we had a cross-platform UI runtime that was still lightweight on the web.

Is it just me or is the video a word-soup marketing pitch of benefits, possibilities etc? 'Open yourself up to content, with adaptive cards'.

What does this thing actually do, and how does it work?

Wow, this is very hard to read. It should be illegal to use light grey text on a white background.

Seems incredibly like an intentionally style-less, script-less version of HTML: a tree structure of blocks, tables, lists etc with simple actions like "show", "hide" and "submit form".

Looks amazing! It's not every day I see a new technology that actually stands out. I could see a lot of apps being built largely as card galleries.

Also, "Experience Owners" should be nominated for Buzzword of the Year. It's so incredibly plastic corporate buzzword-y, but actually kind of does give a bit of a buzz when you see it.

Hey everyone -- I'm a dev on AdaptiveCards and happy to (attempt to) answer any questions folks might have :)

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention our monthly Community Calls. Feel free to join in! You can grab a .ics reminder here: https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall

Our industry has been chasing the dragon of universal GUI components for nearly as long as there have been GUIs. What's different this time?

Unfortunately it didn't work in Linux Firefox :(

Smells new. Anyone willing to recommend how long to wait before adopting a new MS technology?

Use this in teams automation.

It’s just another priority format you need a full blown editor to build your UI in.

Difficult to debug with, but works fine as long as you hardly ever need to change your templates.

Makes sense to have the Markdown equivalent but for UI. (In fact that wouldn't be a bad idea.)

This concept is patented:

https://patents.justia.com/patent/9285977

https://www.wrap.co/

"there are now 15 competing standards" vibes (https://xkcd.com/927/)