Microsoft Launches Silverlight 5; Could Be Last One

[Guest]

what uses Silverlight LOB , windows phone api there are alot of common functional points between wpf and wpf/e ( aka silverlight ) and it does offer some neat separation ideas for program components resources styles code and presentation
i have liked the experience programming in silverlight and there seems to be quite a sharing community around it

i think the 2010 winter olympics used silverlight for streaming videos to people aswell ...

 

[Guest]

Anyone who has looked deeply into all 3 technologies will find that HTML5 applications are easier to "deploy" - but far from functional for building serious, deep desktop applications in a web browser. This capability is 3-5 years away.

Flash has a huge footprint, but is a little flaky and under-powered from a development perspective. Although - this is debatable. There are many games built in flash for the consumer market - but how many real companies built a real corporate LOB app in flash? Too few to mention. Flash lacks all the development sophistication needed to deliver something useful.

SilverLight has a smaller footprint, but is designed for the development of desktop like applications in a web browser. C# is far better than JS - although with time, that can change as more money flows into the HTML5/JS combination. Regardless, it looks like SL will be rolled into "WinRT", which is part of Windows 8. So rumours of its demise are a little premature.

Each technology has its pros and cons. None are perfect. But as someone who develops apps in all 3, I can say HTML5 has a long way to go before it can fully displace either Flash or SL.

 

[PhoneyVirus]

The two sites I read the most -- Maximum PC & Tom's -- are only putting out this news today, SL5 launched last week on December 9th...!

I logged in just to Comment this Yes it may have been launched last week but people do have a life not reading news all day. The way I put it when Friday 5:00 PM comes everything for me is shutdown I don't care if Intel bought out AMD over the weekend I'll read next week and that's the way every site should be. Its the weekend go have fun, play a game, spend time with the girlfriend and live life.

Maximum PC may have one hell of a Magazine but all they put on the there site are stuff from the Magazine and Copy and Paste from other sites. I love Tom's Hardware and Maximum PC for hardware Reviews, not that I buy everything I read about but come on I think weekends should be fun not sitting behind a desk reading news.

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There you want News you got it have fun also Silverlight 5 Microsoft will do what they want when they want. There's one thing I can tell you about Microsoft for sure it that they will stoke every penny out of you and there products.

Where the hell are the PowerUsers Setting nowhere because Microsoft does what they want.

 

[robochump]

And people complaining about Apple not supporting Flash. This just proves that Apple management has much more forth-site into the future of tech than your typical (think they know it all) dudes on the webz.

 

[ib2007]

[citation][nom]robochump[/nom]And people complaining about Apple not supporting Flash. This just proves that Apple management has much more forth-site into the future of tech than your typical (think they know it all) dudes on the webz.[/citation]
No, they just dont know how to make it work on Apple platform.

 

[alidan]

for what its worth, silverlight on my pc kicks the crap out of flash, performance wise.

 

[eddieroolz]

It's a shame, Silverlight could have been much more if it had come out years earlier.

 

[mayankleoboy1]

we need silverlight benchmarks VS. flash