Re: Explain to me the value of Silverlight
November 2nd, 2007
Update: One of the most important things you can do as a developer is to learn to admit when you are wrong. This is a perfect example. I may have been to harsh in my initial assessment of Silverlight, as the ability to call .NET from a Flash-like container would be very nice. Plus, the DLR came out of it (vicariously), so it can’t be all bad. Point being, I spoke to soon. In the spirit of full disclosure, here you go:
Milan at ASP.NET Resources wants to know the value of Silverlight. Quite frankly, so do I.
In response to: Explain to me the value of Silverlight
Maybe I’m ignorant, I haven’t spent much time looking at the technical capabilities, but it doesn’t look much different from Flash. I’m guessing you can interact with the .NET Framework on the backend, but woopee. It just seems like another example of Microsoft’s terrible case of NIH. Couldn’t they also have partnered with Adobe to create a .NET version of Flash? I mean, everyone already uses Flash, so it would have been easier. As for the .NET integration, I think Ajax would be a better fit. Of course, I mean REAL Ajax, not the Ajax wrapper toolkit, but that’s for another day.
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