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| Time: 00:20 EST/05:20 GMT | News Source: InfoWorld | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Microsoft's Silverlight technology could give Adobe's rival Flash browser plug-in software a run for its money based on attendee feedback at the Microsoft MIX07 conference in Las Vegas on Monday. Microsoft made a host of unveilings pertaining to Silverlight, its new technology supporting multimedia in a browser. Among the revelations were a linkage between .Net to Silverlight and a beta release offering of Silverlight. Also, as part of its Silverlight 1.1 alpha rollout, Microsoft unveiled a dynamic language runtime supporting the IronPython programming language and managed JavaScript that can be run on .Net. Plans call for adding support for the IronRuby language and Dynamic VB as well. . With Microsoft's linkage to .Net, Microsoft fills a gap for developers, according to two attendees who work as software engineers at TransCore. |
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| #1 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at Tuesday, May 01, 2007 07:55:25 AM |
| Although I am anxious to see this technology, I believe MS may be too late to this arena. Flash is entrenched and will be tough to knock off. |
| #2 By 32132 (142.32.208.234) at Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:28:23 AM |
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There are a lot of .NET developers, and Silverlight 1.1 will bring an embedded .NET CLR that will run on both Windows and OS X.
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| #3 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:35:48 AM |
| #1, DLR support may be what devs find more attaractive about Silverlight - the connection between dynamic languages, Silverlight and access to libraries across the CLR is going to be very compelling. At to this the integration of Expression Web and Stuido to the IDE - all under .NET and artisans, devs, and engineers have a very powerful and consistent environment that is flexible enough to allow all people to work together and still provide project managers the tools they need to build profitable applications. DLR will allow different dynamic languages access to one another inside Silverlight and each will still be able to access the libraries they need - pretty cool stuff and it beats the snot out of other forms of remoting - e.g., FLASH Remoting, etc... I think it has a real chance. |
| #4 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:04:37 AM |
| There are a lot of vendors out there that already have a heavy investment in Flash. My company's BI solution will be tightly integrated with flash. I suspect this is the same for many vendors. They are not going to drop that initial investment so easily. With respect to the developer, sure, who wouldn't want all of the features and integration with .NET? That's why I said I'm anxious to play with some of this stuff. But I am still dubious of the inroads it can make in the next couple of years. |
| #5 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:17:45 PM |
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Gotta give Microsoft credit for taking on the unbeatable technologies of the world. Wow.
Silverlight is a credible and well-considered flash replacement. Anyone paying attention during the early avalon days, knows that there has been a painstaking attention to customer desires from day 1. And when you take that basis, and combine it with the LEGIONS of C# and VB (and ruby and python now) developers that not-so-secretly look down on flash "programmers"... you have a START that is more CREDIBLE than early jousts against, say, Java. And look at utterly fast Java failed (in retrospect). |
| #6 By 8556 (12.210.39.82) at Tuesday, May 01, 2007 02:50:10 PM |
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The Fox Fantastic Four Silverlight demo looks quite excellent played fullscreen using a wireless G connection on my Asus Vista Business laptop with 256-MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1600. Flash always drops frames on this machine when playing streaming network TV episodes fullscreen. Silverlight is likely to take off on a large scale if the demo (you need to download the plugin) represents what will be typical under normal erver loads, and is not a tweked exception to the rule.
One thing that bugs me is that the Silverlight plug in, installed in Opera, does not work in Opera 9.2 at this time. Hopefully, this will be cleared up by the Opera coders if they will bend their thinking a bit. |
| #7 By 32132 (142.32.208.234) at Tuesday, May 01, 2007 03:55:58 PM |
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The Silverlight reference chart for 1.1 says Opera support is coming soon (as is Win2K).
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