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Could someone who knows about doing this in a large tech firm speak to the difficultly of converting standard flash --> js/html? For something as common as stoc
by TuringNYC 6y ago
Could someone who knows about doing this in a large tech firm speak to the difficultly of converting standard flash --> js/html? For something as common as stock charts, it doesnt seem like a big investment, is there some complexity that comes with scale?
- addicted 6y agoWe have transitioned a few major silverlight based applications. A conversion made no sense at all. What we ended up having to do (and in hindsight was absolutely the right decision), was creating a new application completely. The best way to "transition" for Google with Flash would be to probably, similarly, just create a new application.
- nightski 6y agoGoogle Finance wasn't a Flash app though. It was just the charts which is a much less daunting situation than what you are describing with a Silverlight conversion of a full app.
- skeeter2020 6y agoWe're doing a a large silverlight app right now and the auto-conversion to blazor got us < 65% of the way there, so instead of jumping from MS's old destined-to-fail tech to their new destined-to-fail tech we're going to rewrite from scratch as a web app. I hate to do this but it's the path of least smell.
- ogre_codes 6y ago> ... is there some complexity that comes with scale? I can't see how scaling would be an issue since the tricky/ resource intense bits happen on the client end. We're building interactive charts which are comparable to the Google Finance ones with a fairly tiny developer team. If Google hasn't migrated functionality, it's because the Finance product hasn't met their goals and they've trimmed the team back.