[BNM] Flash vs Sliverlight...

[Martin Tomes]

On Dec 3, 2007 10:04 AM, paul perrin <paul at idltd.com> wrote:
> Current flash is the last gasp of the 'formatted text' stage of the internet
> - Silverlight is part of the first breath of the web as generic data
> transfer mechanism.

Flash is hardly formatted text! And flash does have data transport
facilities built in. They aren't overly flexible but they are there.

> These are obviously my own views, the only axes I grind are those foisted on
> my by idiot suppliers, it makes no major difference to me what technology
> dominates, I'll work with what I have to. My own experience is that
> developing in flash is weird, quirky and it is relatively closed; developing
> in visual studio is generally a delight - however both can be fun.

I think you are comparing the wrong things, try comparing Flex with
Silverlight, that's where the similarities lie. I haven't used either
but have observed them both with interest, I do use Visual Studio and
Eclipse, both are good IDE's and Flex uses Eclipse.

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Martin Tomes
martin at tomes.org.uk