Hi Greg, >From memory....
XBAP needs to run on a windows box with recent IE and full dot net framework running on it. Silverlight can run on any box with any browser and the Silverlight plug in installed. So Silverlight will (should) give you a far greater reach. We just need to know what Microsoft's ongoing support plans are for Silverlight. A few years ago the plan looked to me like: - all main desktop OS's, - all main desktop browsers - Windows and Nokia phones - and anything else they can get it on For now at least I have wound back my Silverlight investment until we hear some clear (positive) direction from Microsoft. All the best Greg H On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Scott Barnes <scott.bar...@gmail.com>wrote: > XBAP was really the initial intent of Silverlight back in the early years > in terms of concept. > > It rarely got touched the moment Silverlight was named so with that your > not likely to see much in the way of support or fixes for issues given it > was essentially parked to the side of the Microsoft production queues. > > Silverlight gets installed into the browser under its own activex > permissions etc where as xbap has to from memory hook itself in via > secured sites or something assbackwards as that .. Been a very long while > since I last touched it. > > Xbap is just wpf with stuff locked down. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 12/02/2012, at 6:29 AM, "Greg Keogh" <g...@mira.net> wrote: > > 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**** > >
