To: Stephen Price <[email protected]> > Seriously dude, I'd be dropping Silverlight as fast as Microsoft did. > Silverlight was great. I was one of it's biggest supporters and I'm still > gobsmacked at how hard Microsoft have dropped it. but it's time to move on. > No point in flogging a dead horse, as they say. >
Jeezuz! I know this topic has been floating around for a while now, but even I'm getting scared. After everything that's been said on this, the big practical question remains: how the hell does someone write a graphics intensive application that must be delivered over the web? Hints in here recently indicate that HTML5 just can't give the performance and richness, and I detest the idea of pushing controls and visuals around a screen using compressed JavaScript as the code-behind fake assembly language. That's not progress, it's a some kind of mad directionless mash-up. Are we in a dead end? We're about to launch a big product upgrade, still using Silverlight. We have had serious queries about mini versions of the app on tablets and phones (thread a couple of months ago), but despite that we have to keep the main desktop app going in the browser. What on earth is a viable alternative?!? WHAT? Can anyone convince me that Silverlight still has at least a few viable years left? Greg K
