{"id":867,"date":"2008-09-03T18:52:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T17:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/867-flash-and-silverlight-are-the-chrome-losers-says-zoho-boss.html"},"modified":"2008-09-03T18:52:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T17:52:14","slug":"flash-and-silverlight-are-the-chrome-losers-says-zoho-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/867-flash-and-silverlight-are-the-chrome-losers-says-zoho-boss.html","title":{"rendered":"Flash and Silverlight are the Chrome losers, says Zoho boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zoho<\/a> CEO Sridhar Vembu makes an interesting statement in an email he has circulated following the launch of Google Chrome<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The biggest losers in Google\u2019s announcement are not really competing browsers, but competing rich client engines like Flash and Silverlight. As Javascript advances rapidly, it inevitably encroaches on the territory currently held by Flash. Native browser video is likely the last nail in the coffin \u2014 and Google needs native browser-based video for its own YouTube; so we can be confident Google Chrome and Firefox will both have native video support, with Javascript-accessible VOM (video object model) APIs for web applications to manipulate video. As for Silverlight, let me just say that if Silverlight is the future of web computing, companies like us might as well find another line of work \u2014 and I suspect Google and Yahoo probably see it the same way too.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

These last weeks have not been good for Adobe. First there was the Harmony announcement<\/a>, sidelining the Adobe\/Mozilla Tamarin<\/a> project and making Adobe\u2019s ActionScript 3.0 look more proprietary. Now there is Chrome; and I\u2019m inclined to agree with Vembu, that Google will try to move away from Flash dependency. If that is right, then neither Google, nor Microsoft, nor Apple wants to play the Flash game.<\/p>\n

As for Silverlight<\/a>, I see this more as a Microsoft platform solution, extending its reach beyond the Windows client. I doubt it will be much affected by Chrome, though Vembu is right in saying that the more capable the browser becomes, the less necessity there is for something like Silverlight.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What about Zoho itself? I would take it more seriously if it were not so desperately slow whenever I give it a try, in contrast to Google\u2019s usually responsive servers. It may be better in the USA, or perhaps there is some other reason, but for me the performance just kills it.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: silverlight<\/a>, microsoft<\/a>, google<\/a>, zoho<\/a>, adobe<\/a>, tamarin<\/a>, apple<\/a>, flash<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu makes an interesting statement in an email he has circulated following the launch of Google Chrome: The biggest losers in Google\u2019s announcement are not really competing browsers, but competing rich client engines like Flash and Silverlight. As Javascript advances rapidly, it inevitably encroaches on the territory currently held by Flash. Native … Continue reading Flash and Silverlight are the Chrome losers, says Zoho boss<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,36,55,80,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe","category-google","category-microsoft","category-software-development","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}