That post is a little incorrect. Silverlight is always in-place release - we never support side-by-side versions. However, we do have quirks mode that allows Silverlight 2 apps to run under Silverlight 4 for example and maintain Silverlight 2 behavior.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Tiang Cheng Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:57 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Is Silverlight dead ? Paul Stovell has a post about the future of silverlight, along with info on how updates will be handled with Microsoft. http://www.paulstovell.com/silverlight-is-ie6 From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Eddie de Bear Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2010 12:58 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Is Silverlight dead ? Oh, and from the Silverlight blog.. http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/the-future-of-silverlight/ It just covers the innovate/standardize cycle.. On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Eddie de Bear <eddie.deb...@gmail.com<mailto:eddie.deb...@gmail.com>> wrote: I think a lot of this has come about from a blog post by Scott Barnes<http://www.riagenic.com/archives/363?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MsMossyblog+%28MS+MossyBlog%29&utm_content=FeedBurner>.. It pretty much sums up what he has heard. The summary is: Windows Team are "dominant" inside Microsoft Windows Team prefer unmanaged code, so anything .Net really isn't viewed in a good light The Dev Team (Scott Guthrie) are pushing WPF/Silverlight HTML5 + CSS3 + JavaScript can do pretty cool things and are cross platform, tech independent. Does this mean Silverlight is dead? Nope.. I don't think so. I suspect that Silverlight will continue to exist as it will be able to evolve faster than future versions of standards (HTML5 has been in the works for how long?). This also applies to flash.. Flash and Silverlight will continue to be the forefront of new things on the web, but new features will be taken from both and get added to future versions of HTML. Well, that's how I see the world :) On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Richard Jones <rjones1...@gmail.com<mailto:rjones1...@gmail.com>> wrote: I don't want to start a flame war however I have been talking to some fellow developers and they mentioned that Microsoft is preferring to support HTML5 over silverlight. I think this is speculation to say the least. Anyway, I don't get it, when Microsoft are about to release Windows phone7 which uses Silverlight. Can anyone anyone confirm this is the case? Regards, Richard -- EDDIE DE BEAR Mob: 0417066315 Messenger: eddie_deb...@hotmail.com<mailto:eddie_deb...@hotmail.com> Skype: eddiedebear -- EDDIE DE BEAR Mob: 0417066315 Messenger: eddie_deb...@hotmail.com<mailto:eddie_deb...@hotmail.com> Skype: eddiedebear
