RE: Not with a bang, but with a whimper

I can't understand your reticence about Silverlight. For Apps (see my post
link below) I think it will continue to be a better dev experience than
jQuery + HTMLX.  Of course, someone could actually build good HTML tools,
but I haven't seen this happen in the last 15 years, so I am not holding my
breath. At the end of the day I still think (as I've been saying for 4 years
now) that Silverlight is about Apps, HTML is about sites.

 

 <http://wildermuth.com/2010/10/30/Post-PDC_HTML5_v_Silverlight_Debate>
http://wildermuth.com/2010/10/30/Post-PDC_HTML5_v_Silverlight_Debate 

 

Thanks,

Shawn Wildermuth

 <http://wildermuth.com/> http://wildermuth.com

 

Note: This was typed on a big ole laptop so any misspellings and
punctuations are completely my fault.not my phone's.

 

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 2:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [OT] Not with a bang, but with a whimper

 

  

Lastly, there has been massive growth in the breadth and diversity of
devices made by a wide variety of vendors providing both open and closed
systems.  When we started Silverlight, the number of unique/different
Internet-connected devices in the world was relatively small, and our goal
was to provide the most consistent, richest experience across those devices.
But the world has changed.  As a result, getting a single runtime
implementation installed on every potential device is practically
impossible.  We think HTML will provide the broadest, cross-platform reach
across all these devices.  At Microsoft, we're committed to building the
world's best implementation of HTML 5 for devices running Windows, and at
the PDC, we showed the great progress we're making on this with IE 9. 

 

http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/pdc-and-silverlight/

 

This really only makes it worse.  Because WP7 will probably be strong in the
enterprise, so we'll probably still end up having to use it.

 

Mike