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Will Microsoft's new Silverlight Player Kill our beloved Flex ?   Message List  
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Please comment after you ready and see this:


http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/04/15/introducing-microsoft-
silverlight.aspx


http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/default_01.aspx


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Please comment after you ready and see this: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/04/15/introducing-microsoft- silverlight.aspx ...
helihobby
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Apr 17, 2007
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No ... -- ... Andrew Muller http://www.webqem.com linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/151/905...
Andrew Muller
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Apr 17, 2007
1:14 am

I hope it spurs Adobe to improve Flex/Flash. I'm a recent Flex developer but I like what I've been able to do with Flex in the last 4 weeks. Here's where I...
Jim Grinsfelder
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Apr 18, 2007
2:54 am

Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the...
Jeremy Watson
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Apr 17, 2007
3:30 am

I got it working to some extent for Camino (mozilla) on mac. By no means have i thoroughly tested it yet though. I couldn't imagine developing for it yet...
Bjorn Schultheiss
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Apr 17, 2007
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A coworked show me an example like the Flex Book, and looks very bad to me, it seems to be very heavy (I ear about 70Mb!), the interactivity not as smooth as...
Carlos Rovira
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Apr 17, 2007
9:08 am

... Except on Linux. Or Solaris. It's all just WPF-related FUD to try and scare people away from the competions better (and shipping) product. -- Tom Chiverton...
Tom Chiverton
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Apr 17, 2007
9:28 am

Hell no :) (Not while I have breathe and draw pay at Microsoft). SilverLight = Apple Flash = Orange Both eatable, but personally I'm an Orange man on Mon-Wed...
Scott Barnes
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Apr 17, 2007
10:07 am

... Reading through the Silverlight docs, XAML looks to me like some weird kind of microsoftified SVG, spiced up with MP3 and WM codecs. I'm still searching...
Claus Wahlers
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Apr 17, 2007
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Claus, Yup, so that's why FLEX does have its unique offering vs SilverLight and once developers & designers unsubscribe from the notion it's a "Flash Killer"...
Scott Barnes
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Apr 17, 2007
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I'm amazed no-one mentioned scripting on this list yet. Silverlight relies on the browser's JS engine for scripting. Basically, the XAML subset implement...
Ralph Hauwert
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Apr 17, 2007
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I'm so sad, I remember Flash 3... I think i was toying with Flash path or VRML... glad I went Flash.. ... -- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.mossyblog.com I'm...
Scott Barnes
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Apr 17, 2007
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Version 1 of Microsoft products have historically been slow, unapologizing in their copycat nature, and hampered by large numbers of major bugs and gaps in...
Peter Demling
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Apr 17, 2007
1:02 pm

I've been working with Flex since its alpha version. Before the release version was avaiable I had an application with AMFPHP ready. That is I really love Flex...
mvbaffa
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Apr 18, 2007
2:38 pm

Its an annoyance of mine aswell. I'm confused as to why .NET remoting was dropped from Flash/Flex (haven't yet seen FLASH CS3 and whether its back but yeah, no...
Scott Barnes
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Apr 19, 2007
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I hope this isn't taken with as some sort of corporate shill for my employer, as it's honestly not my intent, but Dave Wolf, Vice President of Consulting at...
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Apr 19, 2007
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Dave.C, Dave.W gets it :) He understands that the RIA space is not exclusive to one company but many, while I get the undercurrent of his blog-speech, I do ...
Scott Barnes
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Apr 19, 2007
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Scott, ... but i think what hurt it's purity is the undercurrent of "MS is evil, watch them" mentality. I assure you that undertone wasn't purposeful. I did...
Dave Wolf
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Apr 19, 2007
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I agree it was a fun read, and I think Dave you got it right. It's a confirmation of the market and everyone it will benefit. Plus a little competition keeps...
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Apr 19, 2007
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I agree that there is room in the RIA space for another player. I think that MS has a few things going against it for this launch. First off it's a new plugin...
Paul DeCoursey
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Apr 20, 2007
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I got a question though.. How come we see so many ex-Adobe, ex-Macromedia aces at MS on the Silverlight/Expression teams. Is the pay that good? Have minds been...
Bjorn Schultheiss
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Apr 20, 2007
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Always fun with Microsoft it's your competitor and your friend at the same time. I mean sometimes you cant without Microsoft when developing for the Windows...
Weyert de Boer
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Apr 20, 2007
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Take it from me: Thomson v Microsoft 1. The documents I've seen waht to make me through up (dry heave) 2. Microsoft is involved in patent them, z4 technologies...
Robert Thompson
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Apr 20, 2007
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... Fair call :) I'll take you at your word on this one - but don't let that get out or people will think i'm soft, as in micro-soft :) I agree there was ...
Scott Barnes
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Apr 20, 2007
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Puff. Avalon or WPF just rocks! :-) I luv it. Great, to use a the user interface engine in application. Easier to leverage then the Flash ActiveX control <g> ...
Weyert de Boer
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Apr 20, 2007
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I have to put my 2 cents down for prosperity sake. All you people that live in cities and constantly sicken yourselves by your own pollution, need to live on a...
Michael Schmalle
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Apr 19, 2007
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... which is important :) All you people that live in cities and constantly sicken yourselves by ... I live near a desert? does that' coun't for isolation and...
Scott Barnes
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Apr 20, 2007
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Adobe constructed a great product. The conception and architecture are excelent, but the comercial strategy is not so good. Macromedia had something like 4...
mvbaffa
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Apr 20, 2007
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For the record, I was very vocal about Flash's potential all those years ago as well (In 2004, I made this post http://www.mossyblog.com/archives/276.cfm). I'm...
Scott Barnes
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