Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Jul 2009 21:20 UTC
Internet & Networking A day earlier than expected, Microsoft has released version 3 of its Flash alternative Silverlight, including a number of related tools to aid in Silverlight development. It comes with a whole lot of new features.
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RE[8]: Comment by kaiwai
by TBPrince on Fri 10th Jul 2009 13:11 UTC in reply to "RE[7]: Comment by kaiwai"
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I don't think so. The new HTML5 video tag + open codecs + javascript/CSS3 + some svg filters too + animated PNG = far better technology than Flash or Silverlight.

I guess that's a matter of taste ;-) I would never say that a mess of different technologies (some half-baked), mixed to tons of hacks and never meant to work together (and because of that, independently developed) could be better than coherent and modernly developed frameworks, and that's valid for Flash too even if it has been a mess too, sometimes. When I can choose, I never decide to use HTML+JS+CSS+SVG+PNG + all respective hacks. Come on... we all do that because of necessity: we're not so pervert to actually like that! :-P

It blows out-of-the-box Windows 7 away.

Definitely a matter of taste. And btw, what's so exciting about that link? Had those things since perhaps 1998... didn't you?

Edited 2009-07-10 13:17 UTC

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