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RE[4]: Still unclear
by Nelson on Fri 4th Jun 2010 19:20 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Still unclear"
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I don't know who modded you down, as I appreciate insightful posts like yours.

However I don't think framerates in the single digits are "fast enough". Maybe in the future they will get better, and IE9 shows that they can, but in the immediate and short term.. they're not, and customers still demand RIA and LOB apps regardless.


I understand that, however I do try to viciously fight back the lumping of Silverlight into the same technical wastebasket that Flash is dumped into.

Your point is well taken though, there are various political forces at play which obviously prevent Silverlight from having as much fanfare as it deserves.

Really, broken down, Silverlight is a mash of very web-esque technologies. Declarative language with built in vector graphic support, databinding, hardware accelerated rendering, and a Jit engine.


Well that's doubtable, the "most developers" part at least. Silverlight has an army of trained .NET developers in the workforce just itching to make a paycheck off of it (like myself).

Half of their problem is perception, the end user really doesn't care much about a 5mb, 90 second install plugin which they do once.

Symbian and WinPh7 have already proved it's possible to bring performant Silverlight to mobile devices. So as the technology tug of war shifts in the post-pc emerging chess board, we'll see Silverlight become more instrumental.


Sure, I acknowledge that. I'm not complacent, I just wouldn't count SL out yet.


I'm not sorry, I enjoy developing in Silverlight, and make decent money off of it. I also have embraced HTML5, and because I have, I am able to see its weakspots.

I can point out a lot of SL weakpoints too, probably moreso than HTML5 because I've been frustrated by SL more often =P.

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