Submitted by “In March 2008, Microsoft and Nokia announced their commitment to make Silverlight available for certain Nokia phones running the Symbian operating system. Microsoft is finally ready to make a beta of that code available. Microsoft briefly posted, then pulled, the download of the beta of the Silverlight for Symbiancode on March 11, as well as the associated developer tools for that release. I grabbed the description of the downloads before they were zapped.”
Sorry, Wrong article, how did you delete a comment here…?
Edited 2010-03-15 11:29 UTC
It will be interesting to see how the Silverlight engine performs on a Symbian phone – especially when compared to Flash.
And thus begins the runtime wars.
Begun the runtime war has ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgtF3SI-td4
But on a more serious note: This is the only good thing about the big rivalry between Apple and MS. And maybe it holds true for every competitive market with a few vendors.
A proprietary standard will have a very hard time winning against an open one. So HTML5 will win in the long run.
ChromeOS is not likely to get SL.
Iphone/Ipad ” ”
WebOS ” ”
FOSS/OSs ” ” (in a working state)
the list goes on.
All these platforms will run HTML5 apps .. it is just that todays web devs are more on the designer side of things than on the engineer side. So well architected HTML5 apps will take some time.
And anyways: I don’t think SL on Symbian will be a hit. Probably not.
About time! I think Flash being ‘unchallenged’ for so long has allowed Adobe to get away with a product that has become more and more bloated and slow.
edit: lets try grammar this time…
Edited 2010-03-15 13:58 UTC
Silverlight is just like Adobe flash except that it doesn’t suck. It still has the same problems. Only Microsoft can improve Silverlight just as only Adobe can improve Flash.
If Silverlight gets on more platforms or if Flash starts to not suck then we’ll have a problem.
Its too bad some open solution didn’t fill this void. Oh, and JavaScript / HTML5 isn’t a solution. If Sun took care of Java’s startup time JavaFX might have been a solution.
Wake me up when I can watch Netflix on Linux. I’m going back to sleep now…