Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Jun 2008 21:03 UTC
As Bill Gates promised earlier this week during his last public speech as chairman of Microsoft at TechEd 2008, the company has released the second beta of Silverlight 2, Microsoft's Flash competitor. Silverlight 2 beta 2 comes as a 4.66MB download, but as Ars Technica already noted, the Silverlight homepage has not yet been changed to reflect the new release, but there is a changelog that details many of the changes in this release. The Mac OS X version has not yet been released.
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I think, betweeen Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX, is JavaFX the guy who will be win.
Have a look at the videos at
http://www.javafx.com/
http://www.javafx.com/compressed/
http://www.javafx.com/movs/
- Java is OpenSource and JavaFX will be.
- You can see with JavaFX videos, too and see it in a 3D-room and so on
- You can take one of the new Applets out of the browser and have an application, which creates an icon on your desktop and which you can start everytime offline
- same programs can run as Applet, as Application, on mobile phones and TV (in this case the future goal is similar to flash: http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/ )