Re: Not with a bang, but with a whimper

I am also extremely pessimistic about HTML for building _apps_.  (Indeed,
this is why I quit my job at MS a couple months ago. :-)

Long live XAML and C#..!

-S


On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Shawn Wildermuth <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> 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.
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> http://wildermuth.com/2010/10/30/Post-PDC_HTML5_v_Silverlight_Debate
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> Thanks,
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> Shawn Wildermuth
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> http://wildermuth.com
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> Note: This was typed on a big ole laptop so any misspellings and
> punctuations are completely my fault…not my phone’s.
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> *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
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> *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.
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> http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/pdc-and-silverlight/
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> 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.
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> Mike
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