ms silverlight?

think of it as an alternative to flash

its basically a fancy web authoring tool allowing content rich websites that you just couldnt achieve using XML / HTML alone.
 
It's based on .NET and therefore has more capabilities than Flash.

I expect that within 1-2 years it will begin to displace Flash and within 5 years, who knows... :D
 
NathanE said:
It's based on .NET and therefore has more capabilities than Flash.

I expect that within 1-2 years it will begin to displace Flash and within 5 years, who knows... :D
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Thanks for the info Nath... I had a quick browse last night, but I'm thinking about taking it up

Stelly
 
if MS has there way

it will become the industry benchmark for what can be achieved on websites. They're marketing it as ideal for web 2.0 websites, enabling feature rich websites with rich conten..... *yawn*

you get the idea. Basically MS are gunning for Adobe. After adobe took over macromedia, and thus taking flash / fireworks, Adobe made it obvious they are making a big push into the web developing market, with Flash, Coldfusion, Dreamweaver etc.. And then they announced Flex. Basically a rival product to MS' Silverlight.

With Adobe making such a big push into this Area, this is MS' response :)
 
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Hmmm..it's appeared as a Windows Update option (though dated a few weeks back, weird how it's only come up now).

Not sure whether to bother getting it or not..
 
I thought silverlight was more than just flash... it was going to be MS' way to allow people to develop controls that can be used in both winforms and web pages, instead of having to create one for each - implementing features in different ways?
 
Silverlight 2.0 is much more than Flash, you can write in any .NET language such as C# run it as a web app. I think the Beijing Olympics website will be making use of it.
 
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