Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Sep 2007 17:22 UTC, submitted by gonzo
"Microsoft today released to the web Silverlight 1.0, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering richer user experiences on the Web. In addition, Microsoft will work with Novell to deliver Silverlight support for Linux, called Moonlight, and based on the project started on mono-project.com."
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2005-07-06
Then look at all the websites that make heavy use of Flash, and observe how badly they suck ass (slow, bloated, unresponsive, irritating as hell, sucks up all the cpu cycles on the host system, can't be indexed by search engines, etc).
True. That's certainly another way of looking at it, because we've had Flash for donkey's years now. You would think that if people thought that a plugin like Flash was the absolute best way to create web applications then Flash would have taken over completely. It hasn't. Most people realised that DHTML/CSS output, with a bit of JavaScript and AJAX thrown in, was simply more usable.
I'm not entirely sure that people really want complex rich client applications sitting in their browser, when all they want is to view some content.
Edited 2007-09-06 18:02