Comments on: Silverlight + Ruby for .NET? Awesome. http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/05/02/silverlight-ruby-for-net-awesome/ Paul Betts's personal website / blog / what-have-you Wed, 26 May 2010 09:57:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Paul Betts http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/05/02/silverlight-ruby-for-net-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-2065 Paul Betts Fri, 04 May 2007 14:48:42 +0000 http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/05/02/silverlight-ruby-for-net-awesome/#comment-2065 I'm not interested in killing Flash, it can go on doing what it does; I'm only saying that I don't want to program for it because it's a pain, and I have hope that Silverlight might be better. That and while Silverlight has a lot of the functionality of Flash, its implementation is much more similar to Mozilla's Canvas tag. In general though, I'm always interested in new solutions to make computers have better UIs because let's face it, the way we program UIs right now is in the stone age, and there really hasn't been much in the way of making anything better. I’m not interested in killing Flash, it can go on doing what it does; I’m only saying that I don’t want to program for it because it’s a pain, and I have hope that Silverlight might be better. That and while Silverlight has a lot of the functionality of Flash, its implementation is much more similar to Mozilla’s Canvas tag.

In general though, I’m always interested in new solutions to make computers have better UIs because let’s face it, the way we program UIs right now is in the stone age, and there really hasn’t been much in the way of making anything better.

]]> By: Arkon http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/05/02/silverlight-ruby-for-net-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-2029 Arkon Wed, 02 May 2007 16:13:12 +0000 http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/05/02/silverlight-ruby-for-net-awesome/#comment-2029 Buying into the hype again? Maybe you've been living under a rock for the last decade. This is not worth a blog entry! Here's a sampling of headlines from the past few years: "Will Microsoft XAML be the Flash killer?" "Will Sparkle be the Flash killer?" "Will WPF/E be the Flash killer?" "Will Silverlight be the Flash killer?" We should start asking the real question: "When will Microsoft give it up?" BTW. there is *nothing* new under the hood. WIndows Media Video, JavaScript, and XAML are old-school. Have you tried it on FireFox? Have you seen the application sizes? How is this in any way better than Flash? Cross-domain scripting? I could go on, you get the idea. Jump off the bandwagon before you hit the wall again! Buying into the hype again? Maybe you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade. This is not worth a blog entry!

Here’s a sampling of headlines from the past few years:

“Will Microsoft XAML be the Flash killer?”

“Will Sparkle be the Flash killer?”

“Will WPF/E be the Flash killer?”

“Will Silverlight be the Flash killer?”

We should start asking the real question:

“When will Microsoft give it up?”

BTW. there is *nothing* new under the hood. WIndows Media Video, JavaScript, and XAML are old-school. Have you tried it on FireFox? Have you seen the application sizes? How is this in any way better than Flash? Cross-domain scripting? I could go on, you get the idea. Jump off the bandwagon before you hit the wall again!

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