[WSG] Silverlight Followup - Silverlight 1.1 Alpha

2007-11-06 Thread Frank Palinkas
For those who may be interested and haven't seen this yet, here's the address to a CodeProject article on Silverlight 1.1 Alpha: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/SLFun.asp The 1.1 Alpha now incorporates the use of C# managed code and ASP.Net. Kind regards, Frank M. Palinkas Microsoft

RE: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-30 Thread Frank Palinkas
findings yet. Kind regards, Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Montoya Sent: Tuesday, 30 October, 2007 7:48 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] SilverLight On 10/30/07, Frank Palinkas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-30 Thread akella
It's going to be on linux as well http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/moonlight_silve_1.html Moonlight is the answer On 10/30/07, Michael MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the beta process, they were doing some flipping browser detection **from within the plugin**, and only checked for

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-30 Thread Michael MD
In the beta process, they were doing some flipping browser detection **from within the plugin**, and only checked for Safari or Firefox, as opposed to check for Gecko. The demos I've seen still only work half and half on Mac browsers, except Firefox 2.0.0.x and Safari. what about linux

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-30 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
akella wrote: It's going to be on linux as well http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/moonlight_silve_1.html Moonlight is the answer Silverlight is patent encumbered and - on Linux - it may only be distributed by Novell (due to a patent agreement that lasts 4 years). This means that

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-30 Thread Derek Featherstone
On 10/30/07, Christian Montoya wrote: On 10/30/07, Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian - do you have a reference for that anywhere? I'd be really interested in seeing it (as I'm sure others would be too!) Just read the spec on XAML, which is what Silverlight uses:

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-30 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/30/07, Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/07, Christian Montoya wrote: On 10/30/07, Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian - do you have a reference for that anywhere? I'd be really interested in seeing it (as I'm sure others would be too!) Just

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-30 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 30 Oct 2007, at 16:01, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: I recently spotted it in this article http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/05/11/ silverlight_programming_q_and_a/ Quoting Keith Smith, product manager of the user experience platform and tools team at Microsoft covering Silverlight as well

RE: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-30 Thread Frank Palinkas
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke Sent: Tuesday, 30 October, 2007 18:01 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] SilverLight Quoting Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/30/07, Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you show us where they claim it is much easier

[WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Travis D. Falls
So I have to ask... what do you all think of SilverLight... do you think it is just another way to do Flash work in a different Tech. or will it be more? Travis *** List Guidelines:

RE: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Travis D. Falls
: Monday, October 29, 2007 11:26 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] SilverLight On 10/29/07, Travis D. Falls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have to ask... what do you all think of SilverLight... do you think it is just another way to do Flash work in a different Tech. or will it be more

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/29/07, Travis D. Falls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have to ask... what do you all think of SilverLight... do you think it is just another way to do Flash work in a different Tech. or will it be more? It's a little more. I've been looking into it and the distinct difference between

RE: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Frank Palinkas
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis D. Falls Sent: Tuesday, 30 October, 2007 5:52 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] SilverLight I know from a developer stand point... the .NET languages (C# VB.NET IronPython etc) and XAML are a lot nicer to use. I hate ActionScript. Lol Great

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Derek Featherstone
On 10/29/07, Christian Montoya wrote: ... Silverlight is rendered XML while Flash is a compiled format. Therefore, Microsoft claims that Silverlight is much easier for screen readers, search spiders, etc. to work with. Christian - do you have a reference for that anywhere? I'd be really

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/30/07, Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/07, Christian Montoya wrote: ... Silverlight is rendered XML while Flash is a compiled format. Therefore, Microsoft claims that Silverlight is much easier for screen readers, search spiders, etc. to work with. Christian - do

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/30/07, Frank Palinkas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From an accessibility aspect, a screen scrapper maybe be able to do its job. However, any attempt to work the markup will be futile. Obviously this wouldn't be as easy as understanding plain HTML markup, but what I was saying was that a

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 30, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Michael MD wrote: The Silverlight build process produces a .dll. You need the Silverlight plug-in to render the resulting html page. Also, from a quick test, it will only render in IE and the Gecko range. Forget Opera, Safari for windows, etc. If they are

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Michael MD
The Silverlight build process produces a .dll. You need the Silverlight plug-in to render the resulting html page. Also, from a quick test, it will only render in IE and the Gecko range. Forget Opera, Safari for windows, etc. If they are really serious about getting people to use Silverlight

Re: [WSG] SilverLight

2007-10-29 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Travis D. Falls wrote: So I have to ask... what do you all think of SilverLight... do you think it is just another way to do Flash work in a different Tech. or will it be more? Another way of doing the same stuff. The backend tech of Silverlight is a minimal install of .Net, so you get a