Silverlight is Dead, Long live HTML 5??? Really? HTML 5
So according to Bob…
“We think HTML will provide the broadest, cross-platform reach across all these devices. At Microsoft, we’re committed to building the world’s best implementation of HTML 5 for devices running Windows, and at the PDC, we showed the great progress we’re making on this with IE 9.”
“The purpose of Silverlight has never been to replace HTML, but rather to do the things that HTML (and other technologies) can’t, and to do so in a way that’s easy for developers to use.”
Personally PDC bored me to death (until Bob did his interview). I didn’t go, that may have kept me awake during the Keynote. I only made it through John Papa’s presentation (and a few of the framework presentations) without getting bored enough to turn it off, and I have started a ton of the recorded sessions. Clouds, phones, and HTML… whooooo hoooo.
I do not need to pay 5K a year to maintain a software license just so MS can help me develop HTML 5. EVERYONE will be doing that. If they have nothing special to offer, like Silverlight, then have nothing to offer.
I understand they will always target the largest audience they can to make the biggest buck they can, but this time they went way overboard. I understood targeting the VB community and making sure they are happy, but come on, HTML. I don’t give a crap how complex it can be, how amazing it can be, IT ISN’T YOURS!!!! IT’S EVERYONES!!!!! Implement the crap and get on with it. It’s just another step in the ongoing browser mess. It may be a big one, but that is all it is.
It sucks to be so enmeshed with MS technology. Oh how I miss the days of Coldfusion and C++, the days that offered a different path to accomplish your technical goals.
“We think HTML will provide the broadest, cross-platform reach across all these devices. At Microsoft, we’re committed to building the world’s best implementation of HTML 5 for devices running Windows, and at the PDC, we showed the great progress we’re making on this with IE 9.”
“The purpose of Silverlight has never been to replace HTML, but rather to do the things that HTML (and other technologies) can’t, and to do so in a way that’s easy for developers to use.”
Personally PDC bored me to death (until Bob did his interview). I didn’t go, that may have kept me awake during the Keynote. I only made it through John Papa’s presentation (and a few of the framework presentations) without getting bored enough to turn it off, and I have started a ton of the recorded sessions. Clouds, phones, and HTML… whooooo hoooo.
I do not need to pay 5K a year to maintain a software license just so MS can help me develop HTML 5. EVERYONE will be doing that. If they have nothing special to offer, like Silverlight, then have nothing to offer.
I understand they will always target the largest audience they can to make the biggest buck they can, but this time they went way overboard. I understood targeting the VB community and making sure they are happy, but come on, HTML. I don’t give a crap how complex it can be, how amazing it can be, IT ISN’T YOURS!!!! IT’S EVERYONES!!!!! Implement the crap and get on with it. It’s just another step in the ongoing browser mess. It may be a big one, but that is all it is.
It sucks to be so enmeshed with MS technology. Oh how I miss the days of Coldfusion and C++, the days that offered a different path to accomplish your technical goals.
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