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It exists because web standards were not as they are today, because flash was huge at some point, even in the enterprise. The efforts by WebKit, Chrome, iOS an
by emp_ 15y ago
It exists because web standards were not as they are today, because flash was huge at some point, even in the enterprise.
The efforts by WebKit, Chrome, iOS and others simply changed the entire game, and in this game it is pointless to attack flash (silverlight 1.0) or flex (silverlight 2+)
- georgieporgie 15y agoRight, but it was, from the get go, a knock-off, right? They didn't really innovate, they just tried to copy something that was successful (Flash), which most tech people hated (high CPU usage, annoying plugin updates, etc), and which was clearly going to be replaced by better, more open, more universal standards. That's what's worrying. The "best and brightest" just played follow the leader to nowhere.
- TYPE_FASTER 15y agoDon't discount how important it is for enterprise users to be able to re-use .NET code in the client.
- freehunter 15y agoThat's a little simple, though. Clojure isn't a knock-off of Lisp or Java, it's an improvement and a bit of a dynamics shift. Silverlight was great because it wasn't a pure web technology. It offered full offline capabilities. Flash requires you to write it in Actionscript, whereas Sliverlight can be written in any .NET language and ported across. Just because they try to accomplish the same task (getting rich content in your browser) doesn't mean Silverlight is a knock-off. And at the time Silverlight was developed, there was no major support for the kinds of things Flash/Silverlight did (and for some important things like DRM (think Netflix), there still isn't). It's not always possible to see the things the market is going to grab hold of.