On 21 May 2008, at 21:00, Max Battcher wrote: > William T Goodall wrote: >> And don't get me started on Silverlight :-) > > > Honestly, I think this whole "embrace, extend, extinguish" paranoia is > eating away brain cells from otherwise seemingly intelligent people. > You can't have your cake and eat it too. You want Microsoft to > compete > "more fairly" in their existing business but then scream loudly when > they attempt to move into new businesses and shake up the market by > adding in some actual competition... You don't like Windows having > 85% > of the PC market share but you don't mind Flash having some 99.999% of > the web animation market share? > > Not to mention that Silverlight does not "embrace" Flash. It's > entirely > separate, has somewhat different design goals, and in no way using > existing Flash technology. So they can't "extend" Flash with > Silverlight. That doesn't make any sense. It's very, very unlikely > that Silverlight will entirely "extinguish" Flash or even Java Applets > from use on the web. > > Why shouldn't developers have one more alternative to "rich media" on > the web?
It uses Microsoft's proprietary XAML, it plays WMV files but not H.264 and so on. Business as usual with regard to standards it seems. Embrace, extend and extinguish Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ "I embraced OS X as soon as it was available and have never looked back." - Neal Stephenson _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
