RE: [OzSilverlight] Success or Failure of SL.?

2008-10-19 Thread Muhammad Niaz
hI Jempson, What you mean.? Take care Niaz -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ross jempson Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 6:39 AM To: listserver@ozSilverlight.com Subject: Re: [OzSilverlight] Success or Failure of SL.? Cur

[OzSilverlight] Introducing the Silverlight Designer and Developer Network

2008-10-19 Thread Jordan Knight
Introducing the Silverlight Designer and Developer Network It gives me great pleasure to announce the Silverlight Designer and Developer Network, a new community group in Melbourne for Silverlight desig

RE: [OzSilverlight] Success or Failure of SL.?

2008-10-19 Thread Jordan Knight
Agree... There is plenty of content/reference and *some* good tools out there... and there are defininately tons of templates etc... But... Those templates are for pretty sites.. not AJAX enabled apps :) I.e. not an RIA - basically you don't get RIA from JS unless you are a developer of some k

Re: [OzSilverlight] Success or Failure of SL.?

2008-10-19 Thread Jonas Follesø
True, but there is heaps of web designers out there who knows CSS and HTML. So the designer friendliness might tip both ways when comparing traditional web applications and Silverlight (at least at the moment). You can also buy tons of HTML templates and designs online you can include in your appli

Re: [OzSilverlight] Success or Failure of SL.?

2008-10-19 Thread ross jempson
Current leaders: Troll / fisherman of the year : Muhammed Niaz Flamer / Flamee of the year : On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Jonas Follesø <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > First on the AJAX/JavaScript comment: I completely agree. This is something > I mentioned in the "Future of the web"

RE: [OzSilverlight] Success or Failure of SL.?

2008-10-19 Thread Jordan Knight
>>> The reason: tools they know (VS2008), same language on client/server, and >>> consistent API/documentation/tooling (compared to the web where you have to >>> know multiple technologies to do it well). +1 - but don't forget designers here... there aren't really any good tools to bridge the g

Re: [OzSilverlight] Success or Failure of SL.?

2008-10-19 Thread Jonas Follesø
Hi, First on the AJAX/JavaScript comment: I completely agree. This is something I mentioned in the "Future of the web" discussion panel at Tech Ed in Sydney. I think that in the end JavaScript might be a stronger competitor to Silverlight than Flash. JavaScript is getting significant faster in Chr

Re: [OzSilverlight] Success or Failure of SL.?

2008-10-19 Thread Barry Beattie
> You want me to give you a run sheet of our entire game plan so you can run it > off to your buddies at Adobe, think again bazza :) think again! :) > > Sorry, nice try but no cigar. no, Scott, it's not that. I actually don't cut much code anymore these days: analysis, design, recommendations, e