Comments on: Why Silverlight? http://www.itwriting.com/blog/392-why-silverlight.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:28:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Ovenden http://www.itwriting.com/blog/392-why-silverlight.html/comment-page-1#comment-43547 Chris Ovenden Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:14:46 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=392#comment-43547 It shows quite astounding temerity, or perhaps just desperation, that Microsoft thinks it might be able to steal a march on Flash. They should get this local database thingy included pronto; without it they're sunk. I actually considered Silverlight for a project I'm speccing out, because I figured it must have offline functionality to compete with AIR, but no. Silverlight is just Flash fourteen years too late, or as my friend put it, a technology to enable VB programmers to make stuff whizz around the screen. It shows quite astounding temerity, or perhaps just desperation, that Microsoft thinks it might be able to steal a march on Flash. They should get this local database thingy included pronto; without it they’re sunk.

I actually considered Silverlight for a project I’m speccing out, because I figured it must have offline functionality to compete with AIR, but no. Silverlight is just Flash fourteen years too late, or as my friend put it, a technology to enable VB programmers to make stuff whizz around the screen.

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