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Re: 2008/09/06/fate-of-silverlight/

sammy braswell — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:04:25 -0000

as the article above praises flesh and javafx , and leaves something to be desired of msft. has anyone thought about the fact that both companies use the video technology on a company in new york named On2 Technology. just a thought.

Re: 2008/09/06/fate-of-silverlight/

dave — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:48:11 -0000

JS4? JavaScript 2.0 isn't even fully defined yet, where are you finding JS4? The only thing that doesn't exist is a development like the Flash authoring tool.

If someone makes a tool like the Flash authoring stuff for JS, SVG, and SMIL, Flash will immediately be useless in Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Apple Safari. If you can convience users to install an SVG plugin in Internet Explorer, you're done.

I say install a plugin for IE because Microsoft will never offer native support for a competing product, hell they don't offer support for standards from 10 years ago, no suprise they won't add anything from this decade.

Fortunately, people like the guys at google have figured out ways to use javascript to add things microsoft refuses to do, without requiring a plugin. If you've ever seen a CANVAS based page work in IE, you'll see that JavaScript in its current incarnation (1.2) is more than powerful enough to hold its own against Flash and Silverlight.

Theres a 3D Shooter written in JavaScript that runs in the browser for example.

Re: 2008/09/06/fate-of-silverlight/

dave — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:41:03 -0000

You realize the latest versions of flash, using ActionScript3.0 are essentially JavaScript right?

If your javascript guy doesn't see how it can happen, your javascript guy isn't that great of a javascript guy.

Take a look at things like Googles Analytics and add in support for SVGs in future browsers and there is no logical reason why Silverlight and Flash need to exist for graphical content. Sound is still missing, but Adobe helped to START SVG to replace FLASH before they were able to simply BUY Macromedia to obtain Flash.

Its funny that Adobe thought they could beat out Flash with JavaScript/SVG before they owned Macromedia yet you don't think it can be done.

Re: 2008/09/06/fate-of-silverlight/

Someone — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:04:56 -0000

I think an enhanced Javascript can very well be the biggest threat to Silverlight. Javascript (if it is fast -- And hopefully it will be in the Google/Mozilla browsers, for a start) lets you create very rich apps without needing any plugin at all. That is a very very big selling point for Javascript.