It seems to me (although I hope I am wrong), that an important part missing from Silverlight is simple things like right-click (context menus), scroll wheel etc. It seems to me they took the path of least common denominator (a single-button mouse) and that this is very wrong when you need to develop real apps.
As I said, I might be wrong about this and that there is full mouse support, but from the little bit of info I got on this, you are limited to a single-button (other than the Silverlight About context item). Seems like a minor point but I think if you want to create rich apps you need this functionality. Please tell me I am wrong and that there is full mouse support! > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jacobo Polavieja > Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 8:15 AM > To: Mono List > Subject: [Mono-list] What features would be missed when > developing with Silverlight/Moonlight for the desktop? > > Hi all! > > I've been looking for a list of things that WPF support that > Silverlight doesn't, but all I've gotten is partial > definitions. Anyone knows where to look? > > Also I was wondering... if developing desktop applications > with Silverlight/Moonlight is possible, what features are to > be missed compared to: > 1. Other "traditional" toolkits: GTK, Qt/KDE, Winforms... > 2. The new bleeding edge WPF. > 3. Which are the "complications" when developing desktop > applications with something thought for the web space. > > I've seen the impressive NYTimes reader that was done in WPF > running equally well on Silverlight so, apart from 3D > acceleration (which I don't know of many desktop applications > that need it), I don't know what other things one could miss > when targeting the desktop. I guess, maybe local data storage > in a desktop way is a bit more complicated to go through? > > Thanks for any response. > > Cheers! > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
