Folks, what are the pros and cons of writing a Silverlight app versus a WPF app running inside the browser (XBAP)?
A bit of reading indicates that you get richer UI effects with XBAP and more controls to play with. I see they all run in a security sandbox by default, but you can run XBAP in full trust if you want. However, there must be some other considerations that are not so obvious? ... dependencies on other software, cross-browser support, download size, etc. I found this interesting comment: XBAPs are a powerful technology based on .NET Framework technologies, but they are not commonly used on the Internet. Our crawls of the top 100,000 websites found no uses of the technology. We know that many customers use XBAPs on internal sites and, as such, these applications remain enabled in the Local Intranet, Trusted, and Local Machine zones. I also tried to view an XBAP demo and IE9 blocked me, and I'm still looking for which option will unblock the security. This leads me to think that XBAP is more practical trouble than Silverlight. Cheers, Greg
