10 Things You Should Know About Microsoft's Silverlight

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10 Things You Should Know About Microsoft's Silverlight(cio.com)

submitted by asteroid(445) 4 years, 3 months ago

Software developers are busy kicking the tires on Silverlight, Microsoft's answer to Adobe's Flash. This summary of not-necessarily-technical information will help IT managers identify what's important about the new technology—for the people whose first question about a Web development project is, "What's the business case?"

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posted by loern(10) 4 years, 3 months ago 0

Has anyone here really embraced Silverlight yet?

While trying not to get into the Flash vs. Silverlight discussion I personally believe Flash is still superior to Silverlight in many ways. Flash has its user base, dominance, ease of use and the new Actionscript 3.0 which is a lot better than the previous versions. Flash allows almost the same level of interactivity that html and javascript does with a server-side language backing it, like file upload, bitmap manipulation, xml read/write, web requests, dynamically loading content, etc.

What is perhaps the most important issue is whether Silverlight is easier and has short development cycles than Flash has. It's all about being easy to develop in, maintain and low cost.

What are your thoughts on this?

posted by w3stfa11(645) 4 years, 3 months ago 0

Most people are waiting on Silverlight 1.1, but I don't expect Silverlight to overtake Flash in the near future.

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