Patrick, I read some of your blogs and followed some links, and it's all quite interesting (and a bit confusing to a HTML/JS newbie). I went looking because we have a Silverlight 4 app for statistics analysis out in the wild now that has grown over the years since V2 was released. Now everyone is hearing about HTML5/JS apps and the sales guy is often asked troubling questions about the future of Silverlight. This all hints towards the suspicion that we should have written (or will rewrite ) this app in HTML/JS.
I don't have enough experience to tell someone how the development process would differ between SL and HTML/JS or what features of our app would be easier or hard to produce, or what other benefits might arrive (is cross-platform easier?). I had some interesting replies on this matter several weeks ago in the OZ-Silverlight forum, but they left me with more questions than answers. An ex-colleague of mine produced this product <http://www.paperact.com/> after abandoning a Windows desktop app, like you did. He hired a couple of specialists in this sort of development and used tools I had never heard of (I even forget their names now). I saw the megabytes of compressed JavaScript that was generated by the development tools to drive the app and I was quite shocked. Someone posted recently that JavaScript is like the assembly language of the web, you don't usually write it, it's generated by tools. Now I see how true that is. Greg
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