During World Cup 2010, Astro use Silverlight to deliver live telecast, the SmoothStreaming technology is the key selling point for SilverLight
For me, I'll stick to Wowza / Red5 / FMS On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:42 PM, CL Chow <[email protected]> wrote: > Yup, another flame bait. Freshly baked from PCWorld. > > Original Full Article Link: > > www.pcworld.com/article/204883/microsoft_claims_silverlight_beats_html5.html > > > <http://www.pcworld.com/article/204883/microsoft_claims_silverlight_beats_html5.html>Most > Notable (which i found funny) > > Silverlight is valuable for business/enterprise applications, premium media > experiences, and consumer applications and games, Becker said. > > hmmm... remember activex anyone? > > > "The media features of Silverlight are far beyond what HTML5 will provide > and work consistently in users' current and future browsers," Becker said. > Silverlight offers advantages in such areas as high-definition video, > content protection, 3-D video, and smooth streaming, said Becker. > > well, that's a surprise > > > "HTML5 and CSS 3 are going to make this worse for a while as the specs are > new and increase the surface area of features that may be implemented > differently. In contrast, since we develop all implementations of > Silverlight, we can ensure that it renders the same everywhere," said > Becker. > > everywhere with windows and .net? > > > "For HTML5 to be really targetable, the spec has to stabilize, browsers > have to all implement the specs in the same way and over a billion people > have to install a new browser or buy a new device or machine. That's going > to take a while. And by the time HTML5 is broadly targetable, Silverlight > will have evolved significantly. Meanwhile, Silverlight is here now and > works in all popular browsers and operating systems," Becker said. > i didn't know html5 is a resource hog and that hard to implement, awww, but > i don't seem to remember seeing any silverlight apps anywhere too. > Ya, works in all popular browsers (where?) with some "simple" plugin > installation? > > > Regards, > CL Chow > "Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send > OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/"; > > > -- > Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ > > Facebook Fan page > > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 > > http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<osdcmy-list%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en
