On the face of it Silverlight may be perceived as a "NEW! IMPROVED!
Flash", of course it can be used to do pretty much anything Flash can
do, but don't fall into the trap of colouring it with the Flash brush,
it is so much more than an animation and scripting engine.

We're in very early days yet of people realising what they have at
their fingertips. I think we're going to see a lot of development in
the web app sphere now that swathes of coders have suddenly been
granted a pretty powerful way to get their desktop apps "out there"
via the 'net.

Some might say it's the beginning of the end of fat local apps,
certainly it's a *huge* step in enabling a paradigm shift in terms of
remote computing, and whether ultimately that's going to be good or
bad for end users - we're in exciting times!

--- In LMSDev@yahoogroups.com, "Karl Bown" <karl.bown@...> wrote:
>
> 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?
> >
>