Here's a good post by Nick Kramer on the subject: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nickkramer/archive/2010/09/11/how-does-silverlight-compatibility-work.aspx
-----Original Message----- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:22 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Is Silverlight dead ? That's also not correct (SLR has always been a build of the CLR). Quirks mode was added so that we don't break applications built against previous versions when we make changes or fix bugs. An example of this recently was when my team fixed a bug in Stream in 4.0 that caused a couple of Silverlight 2 & 3 apps to break because they were relying on the old (buggy) behavior. The old behavior kicks in when we see an app built against an earlier version. It has nothing to do with the runtime. -----Original Message----- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:00 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Is Silverlight dead ? The quirks mode is only due to Silverlight 4 switching over to the CLR instead of the SLR, which also raises a point that you can bake your own version selection tool via registry hack(s) to give it a kind of fake-quasi-poor-mans side by side version. Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:50 PM, David Kean <david.k...@microsoft.com> wrote: > 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> > wrote: > > I think a lot of this has come about from a blog post by Scott > Barnes.. 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> 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 > Skype: eddiedebear > > > > > -- > > EDDIE DE BEAR > > Mob: 0417066315 > Messenger: eddie_deb...@hotmail.com > Skype: eddiedebear > >
