Re: HTML vs Silverlight - comparative effort?

2011-04-12 Thread Scott Barnes
David / All. Thats not accurate. Ubiquity stats are a developer's placebo, as in the end we noticed at trend in around this argument when it came to Silverlight. Initially when we had ~10% ubiquity world wide Flash having 98% etc it was an extremely tough battle and what got us over the line

Re: HTML vs Silverlight - comparative effort?

2011-04-12 Thread Scott Barnes
oh example point and case: Adobe Flash has 98% ubiquity right? ok.. here's a math puzzle for you.. Flash on average has around 8million installs per day (365 days a year) and can spike up to 33million depending on release / campaigns in market. There are currently approx 1.6billion - 2billion

RE: HTML vs Silverlight - comparative effort?

2011-03-29 Thread Paul Stovell
-Smith Sent: Tuesday, 29 March 2011 12:32 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: HTML vs Silverlight - comparative effort? Hi folks, I got asked a question today that I don't really have the experience to answer and was hoping someone here could help. If I'm going to develop a new web-based application in HTML

HTML vs Silverlight - comparative effort?

2011-03-28 Thread James Chapman-Smith
Hi folks, I got asked a question today that I don't really have the experience to answer and was hoping someone here could help. If I'm going to develop a new web-based application in HTML or Silverlight, what would the comparative effort be like? And really, what kind of pros cons are worth

RE: HTML vs Silverlight - comparative effort?

2011-03-28 Thread James Chapman-Smith
To: ozDotNet Cc: James Chapman-Smith Subject: Re: HTML vs Silverlight - comparative effort? On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:31 PM, James Chapman-Smith ja...@chapman-smith.commailto:ja...@chapman-smith.com wrote: If I'm going to develop a new web-based application in HTML or Silverlight, what would

Re: HTML vs Silverlight - comparative effort?

2011-03-28 Thread David Connors
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:48 PM, James Chapman-Smith ja...@chapman-smith.com wrote: Good point, I didn't mention the target market. We're doing a corporate app. It'll be deployed on a server within the companies. We're only expecting PC possible Mac clients. If you're doing a corporate

Re: HTML vs Silverlight - comparative effort?

2011-03-28 Thread David Burela
My general rule of thumb is: *Public facing* - technology choice defaults to ASP.Net MVC *Internal Line of Business app* - depends on how interactive you want it to be. I usually default to Silverlight because of the ease of doing animations, visual bling, etc. -David Burela On 29 March 2011