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I fail to see the point to this, Silverlight was deprecated by Microsoft in favor of HTML5, end of story.

by DjDarkman 15y ago

bad_user 15y ago
So apps on Windows Phone 7 are going to be built with HTML5?
- contextfree 15y ago
  Why not? IE9 mobile even has new default styling to make websites better match the WP aesthetic.
  - bad_user 15y ago
    I tried doing it for the iPhone (html/javascript, showed in a WebView) -- the experience was horrible for an interface that featured only a couple of text inputs and 2 buttons. And on Android it was even worse. Browsers for mobiles (WebKit mostly) are very buggy and even have extra restrictions that desktop browsers do not. I doubt they did a better job with the engine on WP7.
- DjDarkman 15y ago
  So apps for WP7 are going to be built with Moonlight?
jstedfast 15y ago
Microsoft announced Silverlight 5 beta at Mix11, so not as dead as you'd like to think it seems. Silverlight is still also very heavily used for intranet apps (which is where http://www.telerik.com/ http://www.telerik.com/ makes their money on Silverlight controls)
- kenjackson 15y ago
  Do you work for Telerik? Fan of their stuff.
  - jstedfast 15y ago
    Nope, I work for Novell on Moonlight. The Telerik guys do seem like pretty cool guys, though. I've emailed back and forth with one or two of them to try and debug Telerik controls running on Moonlight.
- DjDarkman 15y ago
  I didn't say dead, I said deprecated.
gautaml 15y ago
HTML5: Polluting the mind of the commoner, making them believe it's the hottest shit since slice bread and that everything else is inferior.
- jrockway 15y ago
  Yeah, HTML5 doesn't even cost money to develop!
- DjDarkman 15y ago
  Silverlight: Polluting the mind of the commoner, making them believe it's the hottest shit since slice bread and that everything else is inferior. Then realizing that this cross-microsoft-platform wonder is just a bad flash imitation, then deprecating it saying that HTML5 is better.

I fail to see the point to this, Silverlight was deprecated by Microsoft in favor of HTML5, end of story.

bad_user 15y ago

So apps on Windows Phone 7 are going to be built with HTML5?

contextfree 15y ago
Why not? IE9 mobile even has new default styling to make websites better match the WP aesthetic.
- bad_user 15y ago
  I tried doing it for the iPhone (html/javascript, showed in a WebView) -- the experience was horrible for an interface that featured only a couple of text inputs and 2 buttons. And on Android it was even worse. Browsers for mobiles (WebKit mostly) are very buggy and even have extra restrictions that desktop browsers do not. I doubt they did a better job with the engine on WP7.
DjDarkman 15y ago
So apps for WP7 are going to be built with Moonlight?

jstedfast 15y ago

Microsoft announced Silverlight 5 beta at Mix11, so not as dead as you'd like to think it seems. Silverlight is still also very heavily used for intranet apps (which is where http://www.telerik.com/ http://www.telerik.com/ makes their money on Silverlight controls)

kenjackson 15y ago
Do you work for Telerik? Fan of their stuff.
- jstedfast 15y ago
  Nope, I work for Novell on Moonlight. The Telerik guys do seem like pretty cool guys, though. I've emailed back and forth with one or two of them to try and debug Telerik controls running on Moonlight.
DjDarkman 15y ago
I didn't say dead, I said deprecated.

gautaml 15y ago

HTML5: Polluting the mind of the commoner, making them believe it's the hottest shit since slice bread and that everything else is inferior.

jrockway 15y ago
Yeah, HTML5 doesn't even cost money to develop!
DjDarkman 15y ago
Silverlight: Polluting the mind of the commoner, making them believe it's the hottest shit since slice bread and that everything else is inferior. Then realizing that this cross-microsoft-platform wonder is just a bad flash imitation, then deprecating it saying that HTML5 is better.