Yeah, but that learning curve is a real bitch. As much as I hate HTML I never struggled with it quite as much as I struggled trying to feel productive with Sil

Yeah, but that learning curve is a real bitch. As much as I hate HTML I never struggled with it quite as much as I struggled trying to feel productive with Silverlight 2/3 for the first 3 months. But as you say, once you're finally over the hump, it makes you really despise the utter stupidity of HTML and the w3c's design by committee.