I found the responses to the article interesting. There are certainly
a lot of virulent anti-Microsoft types around, one poster comparing
them to the Nazis, sigh.

Perosnally I have been "off" Flash for quite some time. It tends to
be used for wasteful, useless, animated screens that have been shown
via research to actually deter users from viewing the content of the
animation.

If Silverlight is just used as NEW! IMPROVED! Flash then it will be a
wasted opportunity. But for an alternative which can be used to add
more than just fancy rubbish it could be a good choice. It doesn't
require a particular editing environment (though it helps) and it
does seem to be more accessible to search engines etc.

I'm tempted to rewrite some small Flash files in Silverlight as an
introduction, anyone got any good resources apart from the obvious
silverlight.net website?

Karl

--- In LMSDev@yahoogroups.com, "nigellaurentius"
<nigellaurentius@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I thought I'd kick off a discussion about Silverlight, an emerging
> technology that I have a particular interest in but as yet,
> unfortunately, have had little to no direct contact with.
>
> I find myself with a particularly horrendous Flash site on my hands
> that I've had to maintain for the past few months, and the question
> has come up about converting it to Silverlight to a) enhance SEO, b)
> enhance future maintenance and c) improve interactivity. The
> conversion tools we've tried so far won't work with Flash more
complex
> than a few shapes let alone poorly crafted ActionScript, and this
is a
> real blessing in this case, as it'll allow a proper rewrite from the
> ground up.
>
> The Reg published this yesterday:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/18/silverlight_pros_and_cons/ -
> what are your thoughts/experiences with Silverlight so far? Any
> praise to give the current toolset, or advice on pitfalls?
>