[LINK] Microsoft's Flash

[Ivan Trundle]

On 03/08/2007, at 12:47 PM, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> At 08:13 AM 3/08/2007, Marghanita writes:
>
> Regarding Microsoft's  <http://silverlight.net/>  Howard writes:
>
>>> ...more vulnerable crap that runs on the browser and infects the PC.
>
> After the recent announcement of Silverlight by Microsoft at their Mix
> event in Vegas, Miguel de Icaza galvanised his team of developers  
> in the
> Mono group at Novell to create a Linux implementation, called  
> 'Moonlight'.
> They achieved this in 21 Days. <http://developer.novell.com/ 
> opensource/>
>
> <http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/25/1427225>
>

It'll all end in tears.

I can't see any reason why either Flash or Silverlight, or Moonlight  
in 21 days, will get any real traction.

The web developers that I talk to and lists that I subscribe to are  
all seeking ways of achieving flash-like effects without using plug- 
ins, proprietary or otherwise. Partly driven by accessibility, and  
partly by the desire to use open standards.

Take a look at Apple's American website for how it's possible to  
implement lots of useful (and not so useful) - and flashy - code  
without resorting to Flash/Silverlight.

I'm not suggesting that javascript has all of the answers (and it has  
some problems, too), but it's got a better long-term future, if web  
developers have a say in it.

iT