It is hardly fair that someone can respond to Silverlight post with a
hostile but not altogether factual response, so I am going to try one more
time to get a word in.
Quote:
"That is the
eternal promise that we are going to be smashed by the
next
compelling experience brought to us by so and so. The reality is
different, those packages really act as constrictors of the
imagination, being based on the principle of tool and object
libraries."
Silverlight is hardly any different
than SVG. It uses XML data to define graphic objects, which can be
scripted and created using Javascript on a web page. So this critique
of Silverlight is hardly applicable whatsoever.
The syntax
is somewhat different, of course, and SVG still has a few things that
Silverlight lacks. But Silverlight is actually making rapid progress
and already works very reliably on far more computers / browsers
without a lot of gotchas than SVG does. At least 90% of the installed
base can run the Silverlight plugin right now vs. about 30% (at best)
with SVG and even then you would have to have detection code to handle the
various bugs in the flavor of SVG available on the user's browser and a
huge amount of very flakey behaviour.
There is about a six
month window where SVG is going to have to do some serious catchup and
come up with a version that works as widely (and as identically on various
browsers) as Silverlight already does, or SVG won't EVER
get widespread adoption. Ignoring this fact is not going to make the
problem go away.
Trying to say that this is not an acceptable
topic here won't save SVG. Doing something about it will. I don't
want M$ to win on this one, but they will succeed at
imposing the new graphic standard if the SVG progress
continues at the same glacial rate of the past few years. There are too
many people with projects that need to be done now, rather than waiting
for a more politically correct technology.
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