Silverlight does not require IE. It workes on IE and Firefox under Windows, and Safari for Mac. I also understand Firefox for Mac support is expected soon (if I've not already missed it). It has extensive cross platform functionality including streaming video support.
It also has the advantage of development under Visual Studio which is a HUGE plus for me. Don't get me wrong, Eclipse is a good IDE with a good debugger and a great set of available (even free) 3rd party plug-ins. But, I've yet to find anything that can compare to the power and ease of Visual Studio 2005 (IMHO). All that being said Silverlight is not without it's problems: * It's control library is still very week. It does not even have a real TextInput equivalent in the last preview release I used. * I does not offer any form of compilation, so it is delivered to the end user as XAML and Javascript source code (which sucks). * It may also be a long time before it has anywhere close to the market penetration that Flash has now. I think Silverlight will be a good contender, but I really do not see it replacing Flash/Flex any time in the near future. - Kelly Paul J DeCoursey wrote: > Ummm no.... IE does not work on the Mac, the last few versions were > awful and barely worked. MS hasn't been developing it in at least 2 > years, maybe three. They stopped supporting it over a year ago. > > >> Everybody uses Windows, almost all the workstations are windows. Macs >> have IE working OK. The better solution was a cross plataform >> solution, that's why I've been working with Flex. >> > > > > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >
