This is especially handy to use with older sites.Īs an all-purpose plug-in that allows you to run videos, animations, live streams, and vibrant graphics when you’re online. It is the solution to web browsers, letting you view more than a glorified text document by running applications enabled on a website. It’s used by popular web platforms you love, such as Netflix and the IMDB application available for Windows phones. NET Framework, Silverlight is a development tool that brings an entirely new level of web interactive to your projects. Will you need it in the future? Maybe.The browser-focused tool is ambitious, letting you run content-rich media on your open webpage. It's Deep Zoom shows promise.ĭo you need it now? No. I digress though, Silverlight is good for quickly dumping a skin over some video using Encoder. Silverlight isn't some magic bullet that can do anything and why in the world would you want it to either? How about a clever or RIA that helps me prepare for retirement like E*TRADE has (which is built with Flex btw)? You will not see photo editing and word processing in Silverlight in the near future. There are a plethora of amazing RIAs out there for Flash compared to the few that are Silverlight. How is knowing two easier than one? It's not. Let's see, in Flash we have Actionscript but in Silverlight we have XAML and then either C# or VB.NET.
It certainly doesn't seem to be easier to code than Flash. Then there's Expression Studio which feels like it's about 8 behind Adobe's Creative Suite but that's a whole other story. It's trying to move into the same area as Flash but it's still about 4 years behind in that there are fewer components/assets, no MovieClip equivalent, video and animation causes anything slower than a core duo to drop frames, no motion paths, no filters (drop shadows, blur, glow, etc.) and probably more stuff I can't remember atm. How exactly is Silverlight an "advanced alternative" to Flash? It's not. Ah, Betanews, source of wordy news articles and reviewers who have no idea what they're talking about.įirst off Silverlight is nearly 3x the download size of Flash player.
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