Comments on: Overheard at a MS developer blog… “Why Silverlight is Nailing Flex”

By: Peter Witham

Peter Witham — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:05:44 +0000

I have to say that I recently did some training on SilverLight and I think it is interesting, it’s not going to make me switch from Flex or Flash anytime soon but it’s always good to cover the bases in technology these days….never know when ya need to switch skills to keep the career going

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:12:43 +0000

“I think 2008 will be shape up to be a very interesting year for all developers and tool vendors. Flex 3 is ready, and Silverlight 2 and Flash Player 10 are just around the corner, AIR and Google Gears, Mozilla Offline, Silverlight Offline�Ķ wow. Lots of new tools.”

Lots of initiatives, true, but there’s lots of different “When can I use it?” equations too.

Something like Mozilla Prism has immediate usability… you can wrap up webpages with their own desktop icons now, immediately, and don’t have to wait for anything else to change.

To get things to happen on other peoples’ machines takes longer though… Player 9 took nine months until less than 20% of the public would be asked to either install something new or go away. When Google Gears comes out of beta, some types of projects may be immediately possible, and others may need to wait until there’s further popular adoption. Tricky.

(I laughed when I read Martin Beeby’s title… not sure he even knows what “Flex” is, or on what basis he might compare it with a beta of yet another browser plugin. Wacky.

jd/adobe

By: Faisla Abid

Faisla Abid — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:44:54 +0000

Flex > 4 years old
Silverlight about 1 year old or more but Silverlight for now….
Maybe Silverlight will one day be on the same level as Flex, but as of now March 16 2008 , it doesn’t look it its happening
ps. for some reason the middle part of the comment got cut off

By: Faisla Abid

Faisla Abid — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:43:59 +0000

Flex > 4 years old
Silverlight about 1 year old or more but Silverlight for now….

Maybe Silverlight will one day be on the same level as Flex, but as of now March 16 2008 , it doesn’t look it its happening

By: l nelson

l nelson — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:33:44 +0000

After spending several months working with Silverlight 1.0 I can very definitively say Silverlight (at least the 1.0 version) should not even be considered a valid product. Microsoft’s lack of communication to developers about critical issues with Silverlight should be a major red-flag to any development at this point.