[BNM] Flash vs Sliverlight...

[wayne]

That just backs up what I'm saying - there's more to Silverlight than
its comparable attributes to Flash. 

Can we get those MS guys back please!?! :D

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From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of PJ Cook
Sent: 03 December 2007 11:01
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Flash vs Sliverlight...

Food for thought from a friend of mine who really is in the know ... ...
...
 
Some interesting thoughts, but I don't think they've been following
things closely enough. Silverlight 2.0 was recently annouced, and
there's nothing to show they are enabling a new web, they are aiming to
replace AJAX for online web apps (literally applications). There's
nothing in there that rivals Flash's creative and lateral abilities,
focussing instead on Rich Controls for creating web based user
interfaces, instead of any new abilities or paradigm shifts per-se. 
 
Of course you can use either tech in much the same ways but their
strategy doesn't appear to be to enable new ways of using the web, but
instead a much nicer way of doing what we are currently doing in the
applications realm. Flash on the other hand is adding new abilities left
right and center, it sounds almost crazy (and pointless) that you can
play a video and apply a real time blurred twirl on it and have it
explode into a cloud of particles but that is possible, it may not have
a use directly, but indirectly it's that level of expressiveness that
lends itself to creating entirely new types of experience for the future
of the web. This is why we have people using it all over the place for
things as exotic as real-time medical imaging in surgery.
 
I think Silverlight will see hugely strong adoption by application
developers, it makes perfect sense and it will be pretty solid. But as
for saying "why use Flash", clearly there's little thought gone into
such a statement.



> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:17:47 +0000> From: martin at tomes.org.uk> To:
bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org> Subject: Re: [BNM] Flash vs
Sliverlight...> > On Dec 3, 2007 10:04 AM, paul perrin <paul at idltd.com>
wrote:> > Current flash is the last gasp of the 'formatted text' stage
of the internet> > - Silverlight is part of the first breath of the web
as generic data> > transfer mechanism.> > Flash is hardly formatted
text! And flash does have data transport> facilities built in. They
aren't overly flexible but they are there.> > > These are obviously my
own views, the only axes I grind are those foisted on> > my by idiot
suppliers, it makes no major difference to me what technology> >
dominates, I'll work with what I have to. My own experience is that> >
developing in flash is weird, quirky and it is relatively closed;
developing> > in visual studio is generally a delight - however both can
be fun.> > I think you are comparing the wrong things, try comparing
Flex with> Silverlight, th
 at's where the similarities lie. I haven't used either> but have
observed them both with interest, I do use Visual Studio and> Eclipse,
both are good IDE's and Flex uses Eclipse.> > -- > Martin Tomes>
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