Apparantly, Silverlight is doing well. It was announced [.wmv] at a MIX '08 keynote that Silverlight is being installed on internet users' machines at a rate of 1.5 million per day. Silverlight is being used in places like Netflix and to webcast over 3000 hours of the 2008 Olympic Games.
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Member since:2006-02-05
it isn't getting pushed over windows update yet.
Right now, we are at 1.0, which is javascript only and with no user controls (if you want a textbox, you build it from scratch). What 1.0 has going for it over flash is that it will deliver hi-def video out of the box, and it does it well.
Most people I know are waiting for 2.0 (later this year, beta 1 just came out for it). 2.0 will have more of the framework, use any .net language, and have user controls. This will make silverlight very compelling for doing rich applications interfaces for the web, which is something flash is used for, but wasn't really designed to do.
IMO it will take 3.0 or 4.0 before we have a real flash killer, simply because while the tools for developers are already way beyond what flash offers, the tools for designers are nowhere near there yet. (Same goes for WPF)
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Using flash or silversight for streaming video is one of the most stupid things I can think of. And still there are many flash videos on the web.
What is driving this trend? Stupidity? Money (do Adobe or Microsoft pay them)? Or is it just the trend driving the trend (the last cool thing)?
I believe we would all be better of if flash didn't support video. Don't provide the stupid web designers with weapons, or they'll use it.
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Doesn't Silverlight come with the standard updates retrieved from Windows/Microsoft update? If so 1,5 million downloads a day is barely an accomplishment as it gets pushed to the user.
Are there any good implementations of Silverlight yet and is there an advantage for the user compared to Flash so far?