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This is really a stretch to call this "client side" scripting when Silverlight is doing all the heavy lifting. It's a fun toy, but why an extra layer of abstra
by ignu 16y ago
This is really a stretch to call this "client side" scripting when Silverlight is doing all the heavy lifting.
It's a fun toy, but why an extra layer of abstraction when JavaScript + jQuery are crazy powerful.
- pufuwozu 16y agoThere was a bit of talk a while back about integrating Moonlight (open-source implementation of Silverlight) into Firefox itself. I'm not sure whether it was decided to be infeasible but I really liked the thought of having a general purpose VM available directly within the browser.
- daeken 16y agoSilverlight runs client side, so I don't really know why you're putting scarequotes around that. It's like saying that Flash games aren't running "client side".
- sp332 16y ago.Net has a standard library, that's why.
- Groxx 16y agoAnd a 200mb installer.
- xpaulbettsx 16y agoSilverlight's installer is 4MBish...
- Groxx 16y agoAnd the .Net installer? If you're using the .Net standard library, it's reasonable to assume .Net is a prerequisite. http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/292203.aspx http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/292203.aspx
- budgi3 16y agoLooks this has now been addressed with .Net 4.0. It's back down to 48MB.
- ttrashh 16y agoSilverlight contains a large subset of the .Net Framework in that 5Mb install. You don't need (and it can't use) the full .Net Framework.
- Groxx 16y agoDidn't know that, thanks! 5mb is indeed quite reasonable.
- ahlatimer 16y agoI'm writing an in-browser IDE for Python. Having a Python interpretor in the browser is incredibly useful for that.