I would not give too much credit to Microsoft pulling the plug on Silverlight... Around February 20010 they joined forces with Apple in order to kill Flash, at that point they said plugin is dead, Flash is dead and viva HTML.Then came a new version of Silverlight, at which point they went public and said HTML5 does not cut it, plugin is still the way to go, then 3 months later they go over the whole cycle again.
So yes Microsoft said plugin is dead when convenient (remember their goal is to kill Flash ever since Macromedia refused several more billion from Microsoft than Adobe ended up spending) but it does not mean Silverlight is dead, they announced the last release as an alternative to Flash right after Adobe dumped it on mobile. On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Rick Winscot <rick.wins...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jeffry, > > I participated in the mono-touch and mono-droid betas... Moonlight - will run > Silverlight content on Android and at one point Microsoft had announced iOS > support. What the status of those projects are now with Microsoft pulling the > plug on Silverlight... who knows. > > -- > Rick Winscot > > > On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Jeffry Houser wrote: > >> On 1/10/2012 2:48 PM, Doug McCune wrote: >> > When was the last time you saw a company move away >> > from Flex to Silverlight or JavaFX? Or make a decision to start a new >> > project using Silverlight or JavaFX instead of Flex? >> > >> >> >> In early 2011 a client chose Silverlight for one of their projects. I >> was not involved in the decision; but I got to see some political >> wrangling afterwards. One side was saying "This should have been built >> in HTML5" and the other side saying "This should have been built in >> Flash/Flex." >> >> I was told that the reason Silverlight was chosen was because it would >> allow them to easily port to Android and iOS. I asked for details, but >> was unable to get any specifics. Ss there a way to use Silverlight to >> build iOS/Android apps? Does Mono allow that? >> >> >> -- >> Jeffry Houser >> Technical Entrepreneur >> 203-379-0773 >> -- >> http://www.flextras.com?c=104 >> UI Flex Components: Tested! Supported! Ready! >> -- >> http://www.theflexshow.com >> http://www.jeffryhouser.com >> http://www.asktheflexpert.com >> -- >> Part of the DotComIt Brain Trust >> >> > >
