Hi Greg, At this point I am working on a new app, it will have an HTML web site for basic stuff and a downloadable win forms app for the intensive stuff, I would much rather do it with SL but MS has so upset the SL story that it is just not going to happen!
Regards Greg H On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
