Silverlight
- Thread starter nippynoo
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Will there be a Silverlight 6? Or is 5 end of the road?
Ok, the longer answer
I don't think there will be a sl6, and if there is then it won't be a major upgrade.
Right now on win8 the future is winrt for apps, wpf for full fat desktop apps. Delivery via browser is a toss up between silverlight or html5. I know which I'd choose...
Fast forward a few years and winrt gets more mature you can see that it will displace wpf. Microsoft is betting the bank on HTML for browser delivery as they know a plugin based environment isn't going to be fotm down the road.
Thanks for the reply. I will read up on winrt.
Just to fill you in, I'm building CAD/graphics browser apps and need to save quite long text files on the local machine - up to 100MB. SL has a SaveFileDialog and works just fine, but I'd be happy to change to HTML5 (along with the rest of the world) if I can find a way of writing large file to the local machine. HTML5 Localstorage and Sessionstorage dont really cut the mustard. Any ideas? Maybe I should stick with SL?
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