Microsoft: Please read and give clear guidance. I don't want to be developing for a dead platform!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/09/microsoft_html_5/
the rumors everywhere silverlight toast or on it's way out. wpf dead duck no real reason for existence.
we're deciding right if should going html 5 or silverlight. i'm leaning silverlight's way because of scalabilty , richness of ui real pita in html 5, if ms going abandon , go down route of forking html 5 don't want waste finite resources building silverlight.
we need clear , explicit guidance and positioning you're plans are, otherwise you're making decision me leaving in air have choose industry standard , safe way of doing things html 5 , live deep hatred of javascript.
rumors , opinions great stirring pot, , there lot stirring out there in regards html 5 , silverlight.
so take the approach of looking @ going on. microsoft pumping lot of resources silverlight. it is now web, phone, , soon-to-be embedded enabled. not going anywhere time soon. past several years, microsoft's premiere conferences (pdc , mix) have been focused largely on silverlight. scott guthrie has gone on record countless times power of silverlight , it's importance in microsoft's future web offerings.
is html 5 going take of dev space silverlight? sure. there projects on edge can done in html 5. however, application space, html 5 won't able touch the structured development platform silverlight offers. basically be javascript hacking that, although come tremendous way, has been around ever.
i encourage to read the post brad becker (which linked @ bottom of posted article) on future of silverlight. http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/the-future-of-silverlight/
however, end of day, guess see. have 1 additional thought on html 5 replacing silverlight. yes, ie9 support html 5 , of new features. consider this, still struggling many (especially large enterprise) customers to them off of ie 6. how there going wide spread adoption of ie9?
hope helps.
tony
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