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XUL is not more cross platform than XAMLmozilla engine is the key...but you can write your own renderer for XAML on the platform of your choicenoone is going to stop youand... everyone knows that mozilla framework runs not very well on OSXit doesn't even use OS native widgetsthat's why i use camino or safari
No. First off, you're thinking of WPF. WPF is not an 'evolution' of Windows Forms. It's a completely new system, written from the ground up, that replaces it.Silverlight is a browser version of WPF. Diet WPF, if you will.
I still don't see why they are so against another 'version-ing' of html. The concept of the doctype switch worked perfectly. Just have all the current user agents freeze their rendering engines and call it CSS2CompliantMode and from that point on add an element to html 5 that gets ignored by older browsers but tells the newer browsers to use their CSS3/html5 renderer?
Mac users should be happy for this. It may solve the problem of WMV DRM. Some web videos require you have Windows Media Player DRM to view them--but Silverlight seems to support DRM, and it works on the Mac. Correct me if I'm wrong, but problem solved?
Microsoft history of embrace and destroy prevents massive adoption of their 'crossplatform' ideas. < / opinion > Flash has been with us for years and years. Adobe has pick up the ball and run with it by providing Flash 9 for Linux. Excuse me if this sounds harsh but I just do not trust anything Microsoft says about their new warm and fuzzy nature. Just as I trust absolutely nothing coming our of the mouths of the Bush administration. Everyone knows their goal is to crush competition with any means possible. For an example just look to what their lobbiest did in Florida with the open document format - msbsfud if you ask me.
I don't know much about this stuff...but Couldn't Silverlight be comparable to Adobe's Apollo sdk + Flex+ (implementing flash as just an option)?..as far as what it is trying to accomplish?
makisApr 16, 2007
XUL is not more cross platform than XAMLmozilla engine is the key...but you can write your own renderer for XAML on the platform of your choicenoone is going to stop youand... everyone knows that mozilla framework runs not very well on OSXit doesn't even use OS native widgetsthat's why i use camino or safari
miothegreatApr 16, 2007
No. First off, you're thinking of WPF. WPF is not an 'evolution' of Windows Forms. It's a completely new system, written from the ground up, that replaces it.Silverlight is a browser version of WPF. Diet WPF, if you will.
obkenobiApr 16, 2007
The Microsoft section is sooooooooo exciting.
Closed AccountApr 16, 2007
this is not cross-platform or even cross browser. please mark as inaccurate.
Closed AccountApr 17, 2007
Who the hell wants to run windows applications using that garbage? Get real. Are you on the MS payroll or what?
thinsoldierApr 17, 2007
I still don't see why they are so against another 'version-ing' of html. The concept of the doctype switch worked perfectly. Just have all the current user agents freeze their rendering engines and call it CSS2CompliantMode and from that point on add an element to html 5 that gets ignored by older browsers but tells the newer browsers to use their CSS3/html5 renderer?
steve1496Apr 17, 2007
Mac users should be happy for this. It may solve the problem of WMV DRM. Some web videos require you have Windows Media Player DRM to view them--but Silverlight seems to support DRM, and it works on the Mac. Correct me if I'm wrong, but problem solved?
aristotle0dudeApr 18, 2007
I tried it on my mac. I'll stick with flash thanks. It caused Safari to become unstable.
macewanApr 19, 2007
Microsoft history of embrace and destroy prevents massive adoption of their 'crossplatform' ideas. < / opinion > Flash has been with us for years and years. Adobe has pick up the ball and run with it by providing Flash 9 for Linux. Excuse me if this sounds harsh but I just do not trust anything Microsoft says about their new warm and fuzzy nature. Just as I trust absolutely nothing coming our of the mouths of the Bush administration. Everyone knows their goal is to crush competition with any means possible. For an example just look to what their lobbiest did in Florida with the open document format - msbsfud if you ask me.
aaaaaakashApr 23, 2007
I don't know much about this stuff...but Couldn't Silverlight be comparable to Adobe's Apollo sdk + Flex+ (implementing flash as just an option)?..as far as what it is trying to accomplish?
jon61575May 1, 2007
Although the plugin works on Windows and Mac, the authoring tool is Windows only.