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John_Cline wrote on 7/14/2009, 4:29 AM
I just entered "Silverlight" into this forum's search engine and came up with 86 hits. So it looks like it's been discussed here quite a bit, in fact, there was a lengthy thread here on the subject of Silverlight just a few days ago. Go have a look yourself!
srode wrote on 7/14/2009, 4:43 AM
Thx, I found it - didn't notice it before, and hadn't tried the search.
A. Grandt wrote on 7/14/2009, 8:29 AM
You might want to know that Silverlight is a MS only platform, so if you know with 100% certainty that all of your intended audience will be Windows XP/Vista/7 users on IE7+, go ahead, else go with something else.
[r]Evolution wrote on 7/14/2009, 10:20 AM
You might want to know that Silverlight is a MS only platform, so if you know with 100% certainty that all of your intended audience will be Windows XP/Vista/7 users on IE7+, go ahead, else go with something else.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/silverlight.html
"A cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in..."

MozartMan wrote on 7/14/2009, 10:23 AM
You might want to know that Silverlight is a MS only platform, so if you know with 100% certainty that all of your intended audience will be Windows XP/Vista/7 users on IE7+, go ahead, else go with something else.

Grandt,

You are probably Flash programmer?
A. Grandt wrote on 7/14/2009, 1:47 PM
You are probably Flash programmer?

Nope :)
Not even programming for the web
jwcarney wrote on 7/15/2009, 8:47 AM
Silverlight is being groomed by MS to be much more than an interactive media player. They are adding features to enable full on thin client business apps (aka RIA) to be developed for it, and run outside of the browser.
At this point in time, the real competition is Adobe Air and Google Gears to a lesser extent.
There is a growing list of 3rd party development tools for it (like adding grids, 3D support, form creation....). Expression 3 is also being released very soon now to complement development.