Comments on: Siverlight === Flash

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Tue, 15 May 2007 08:24:32 +0000

[...] useful applications in it. The recent chatter on my own personalblogosphere (mainly the boy dark0, pixelBox and andrewskinner [dot]name) has included chat about SilverLight, Microsoft’s new web-based [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 10 May 2007 08:34:30 +0000

Also I forgot to say that you can program flash in flex using HTML and JavaScript

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:01:54 +0000

My thoughts on those points are:

1. With Flex you can deploy to a swf file or an apollo runtime, meaning you can run on Mac/Windows/Linux etc in a desktop environment.

2. Flex uses MXML which is open. In fact flex it’s self is now an open source project.

3. Flex is using ActionScript3 which is very impressive, although perhaps not as handy as having the ability to code in different languages… well until you come to debug someone else’s code ;)

By: Dominic Pettifer

Dominic Pettifer — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:53:33 +0000

Some key differences to point out, though I could be wrong on some/all of these

1. Flash is for web only AFAIK. Silverlight is a subset of WPF (WPF/e) which is a new framework for creating GUI’s for both web and desktop. If you’re a Silverlight Pro you can easily transition over to desktop apps and visa versa.

2. Silverlight is in an open XML format (XAML). Now this where my knowledge is shakey but flash is a closed propriatory format I believe (correct me if I’m wrong).

3. Silverlight has an argubly more powerful programming API at it’s disposal, a subset of .NET, which means you can use C#, VB.NET, JScript etc.

By: chris dorward

chris dorward — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:58:27 +0000

if (silverlight.promise == flash && silverlight < = eval(MicroSoft.History)) { silverlight.HasLegs = true; }else{ silverlight.SinksLikeAStone = true; }