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Aside from Netflix and MSN/Bing HD Video, and microsoft.com, how much has actually been done with Silverlight, really? My impression of Silverlight, admittedly
by teilo 16y ago
Aside from Netflix and MSN/Bing HD Video, and microsoft.com, how much has actually been done with Silverlight, really? My impression of Silverlight, admittedly subjective, has been that it has largely been a failure, and has seen very little adoption in the corporate world.
If this observation is accurate, then there is no way that Silverlight can be the next IE 6, simply because the adoption rate is so very small.
- equark 16y agoMy understanding is that Silverlight is being used pretty heavily by some organizations to build basic internal web apps. They aren't using features that HTML doesn't have, instead they just want the data-binding features of silverlight and to stick to XAML/C#. This may be cost effective in the short run, but the author has a point. In five to ten years, these apps are going to seem incredibly outdated and browser support is not guaranteed.
- zbanks 16y agoAnd then the important part: employees will be forced to use IE12 (or whatever) because Chrome 25 & Firefox 6 don't support silverlight, which will slow adoption of html6.