Re: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-22 Thread silky
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:12 PM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: Actually Scott, we have met. On many occasions. You might remember a little Aussie activity that your wife (and yourself) had a lot to do with on Saturdays in Redmond. I'll leave the discussions on future versions of

RE: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-22 Thread David Kean
...@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

RE: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-22 Thread Ken Schaefer
2010 3:19 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Is Silverlight dead ? On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:12 PM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: Actually Scott, we have met. On many occasions. You might remember a little Aussie activity that your wife (and yourself) had a lot to do with on Saturdays

Re: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-22 Thread silky
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Some people want to know whether it's worth investing in a platform - i.e. will it have a foreseeable future, or is it a dead end? Sure, but how do you rate such a thing? Based on requirements and context. Evangelists

Re: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-22 Thread Scott Barnes
: RE: Is Silverlight dead ? RE: David Kean. David, we've never meet so i'm guessing you're assuming either the worst or prefer character attacks vs answering the hard questions ;) like is WPF is Dead? given you have @microsoft.com how about we spend more energy in clarifying the remarks

Re: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-22 Thread silky
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: David with glasses? the one who falls asleep allot after 1x beer? aren't you a tester or something? Anyway, I am more than happy to openly debate and discuss my opinions / remarks but i think the attack posture you

RE: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-22 Thread Greg Keogh
David with glasses? the one who falls asleep allot after 1x beer? aren't you a tester or something? Urrh, can this stuff be kept offlist please? -- Greg

Re: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-22 Thread Scott Barnes
Sorry, will take it offline. Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: David with glasses? the one who falls asleep allot after 1x beer? aren't you a tester or something? Urrh, can this stuff be kept offlist please? --

RE: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-22 Thread David Kean
, 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

Re: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-22 Thread DotNet Dude
...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Richard Jones Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:48 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Is Silverlight dead ? On a side note,I have read about the ethos at Microsoft that they have teams battle it out for technologies such as LinqToSQL

RE: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-21 Thread David Kean
Silverlight is not dead. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Richard Jones Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:15 PM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Is Silverlight dead ? I don't want to start a flame war however I have been talking to some

Re: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-21 Thread Eddie de Bear
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.comwrote: I think a lot of this has come about from a blog post by Scott

Re: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-21 Thread Arjang Assadi
going away. -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Richard Jones Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:48 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Is Silverlight dead ? On a side note,I have read about the ethos at Microsoft

RE: Is Silverlight dead ?

2010-09-21 Thread Scott Barnes
? - that or learn to evangelize more effectively :) - as you will note, i've consistently said i'm a fan of WPF and Silverlight and THUS why the motivation behind what i have done to draw attention to the reality of the future of both WPF/Silverlight given the current internal climate. RE: Silverlight