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Silverlight or Flash, pick now or else!

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No! is the right answer, as you don't have to be one or the other you can be both. I'm reading a lot of fear related blog posts as of late around Silverlight and wonder as to how this got to the state it's in?

You don't have to be so narrow minded about it, as FLASH and AJAX co-exist, why can't Silverlight? Laszlo and Flex co-exist? anyway, I think if you ignore the "Flash Killer" speeches and opinions and instead keep this in mind, you'll be fine going forward!

Keep moving forward.

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  • Anonymous
    April 19, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    April 20, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    April 20, 2007
    Tim, Simple, why should folks switch from Internet Explorer to say Firefox? Awarness is usually the motivator "You mean I can use something else other than IE? cool, where do I get it". Everyone has choice, DRM may annoy some much like I hate the fact XBOX360 doesn't support DivX - yet I understand why. Business is a funny motivator at times, but overall Silverlight will get traction - that I really have no doubt. This is the long haul, not short and it's not going to be an overnight success. Choice will come sooner or later, I'd rather folks ignore the politics, download the bits post MIX07, take it for a test-spin and get involved with it earlier than later as this could be a point of difference for some agencies around the globe? Can't hurt right?
  • Scott.

  • Anonymous
    April 20, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    April 21, 2007
    Tim, Yup, I'll do that once it's released :) I can't do much atm as we are still in pre-Release phase heh.

  • Anonymous
    October 19, 2008
    Because Silverlight can only be developed successfully using the windows os

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    December 03, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    December 03, 2008
    Didi, We're not asking you to give up your Adobe Tools, quite the opposite. Expression Studio is simply a bridging tool between your current workflow and our approach to Silverlight. The objective for us is to work hard at ensuring you are able to design in the tools you have chosen to design in, in order to produce Silverlight.