3 ms·

I do wish MS would release a SL to HTML5 compiler though. That would mitigate a lot of the rancor.

• DrJokepu 16y ago
  That would be a hard cookie. In many ways, Silverlight has a lot more features than HTML5 and it is also compiled to binary. I guess it would be possible to compile the binary to some sort of JavaScript and emulate some of the Silverlight API, but I seriously doubt that it would yield very convincing results.
  • steverb 16y ago
    I agree, but in my mind it doesn't need to be perfect. Just good enough to get the bones to dance a little, and frankly, there isn't a lot you can do in SL that you can't do in javascript / HTML.
• Encosia 16y ago
  I could be wrong, but I don't think translating between Silverlight and actual web development with an acceptable level of fidelity is realistic. If it were, ASP.NET WebForms 3.5 and 4.0 would have implemented something like that to begin with and Silverlight would have never existed.
• city41 16y ago
  I can't see how this would work or be effective. It could possibly work for the smaller, more media oriented Silverlight apps. But those apps are relatively painless to port to HTML5 already. For larger, line of business apps, especially those that frequently talk to a server, I can't even imagine where a tool like this would begin.