I¹ve been digging myself and right now I get the impression that its true RIA on windows (with full WPF behind it) but primarily a media player on other platforms. I¹ll be studying further to wash away my ignorance but that¹s where I¹m at now ... :-)
Stace On 4/17/07 7:34 AM, "Scott Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Claus, > > Yup, so that's why FLEX does have its unique offering vs SilverLight and once > developers & designers unsubscribe from the notion it's a "Flash Killer" and > do more of what you are doing (exploring it's upcoming release) you'll decide > on what you think it's merits are vs aren't. It's early days yet, so wouldn't > worry to much about it folks ;) just keep an open mind should you want to take > it for a test-run post MIX07 :) > > WPF & SilverLight are going to have interesting prospects just like Apollo and > FLEX will have it's own, I think the two will do different things for > different people. Keep fingers in all barrels I'd say :) > > > > On 17 Apr 2007 03:30:22 -0700, Claus Wahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> > If you read FUD crap, ignore it on both sides and just be opened to the >>> > idea that theres yet another channel of delivery in rich interactive >>> > applications. >> >> Reading through the Silverlight docs, XAML looks to me like some weird >> kind of microsoftified SVG, spiced up with MP3 and WM codecs. I'm still >> searching but so far i couldn't find anything close to what Flex offers >> (what i found are some barely working and butt ugly component >> experiments). I'd guess that Silverlight will get some video market >> share, but it has a long way to go to enter the RIA market. My 2 centavos. >> >> Cheers, >> Claus.
