On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Damian Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually there's probably less work because XAML is a controlled and strict > environment the tooling is much better and can be trusted more. Using the > designer and palettes in Expression Web or VS2008 to build your CSS styles > is not WYSIWYG and for experienced CSS coders is actually, usually, slower. > Compare that to Blend where creating reusable styles is a joy.
so you're saying the development road-bumps are smoothed by the tooling for Silverlight? I wonder what you make of this then? http://www.sdtimes.com/MICROSOFT_CO_SPONSORS_ECLIPSE_PROJECT_FOR_SILVERLIGHT/About_OPENSOURCE_and_SILVERLIGHT_and_ECLIPSE_and_MICROSOFT_and_SOYATEC/32968 Look, at the end of the day, there's not going to be a lot of difference between Flex and Silverlight. an XML-type markup language to describe the UI, a Java-type language for logic and object creation. Meh. Same (basic) leopard, different spots. Tooling *is* important with quality intellesence, and designer-built interfaces. That's why in the Flex world the tool of choice (not exclusive) is built on Eclipse - to smooth the transition for those Java and ColdFusion developers working with Flex. Couple that with Adobe designer products pushing out Flex UI's. Microsoft has always had quality tooling with VisualStudio but where the "battle" will be fought (and it doesn't have to be red team Vs blue team but simply horses for courses) is ... (in order, my opinion) - the client runtime availability (the SL player Vs the Flash Player) and therefore the potential reach of the application (so what's wrong with SL being the perfect choice for inhouse apps with a fixed Windows-based SOE?) - numbers of developers (no point coming up with cool tools/technology if no one uses it) - resources to help those developers (getting started / moving forward) ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net