Re: Not with a bang, but with a whimper
Mike <[email protected]>
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Yes, the world needs more XML, and more verbose static languages. Better yet, mix them together! :) I'm sure, like with all technologies, once you get into it, you'll start liking it. But looking at it from the outside, it surely looks like older technology and ideas. Mike On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Shawn A. Van Ness <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 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: > >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Shawn Wildermuth >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> > >