Hi, It warms my dear heart to see Silverlight talked about in a forum like this! :)
I'll help if I may clear up a few things around Silverlight. * Silverlight SEO/Usability - At this point it's primitive, but we are working with folks from around the globe to firm this up some more, when it will be firmed up is something I don't have dates around. Suffice to say it's on the agenda and with US 508 being quite strict, obviously there is a desire to make sure this happens. That being said, given that the XAML has to be well-formed XML this can now lead to some interesting approaches to XLST specific data from XAML to <insert your desire here>. In that if Usability Engines like JAWS etc wanted to focus on this space, they could practically do a lot of the leg work themselves. Michael and Jeff Wilcox have done some work around getting under the covers of Silverlight XAML / JavaScript and using it for Good instead of Evil (heh). You can find more about this journey here: http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2007/10/01/using-web-analytics-with-silverlight.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/synergist/archive/2007/10/03/other-silverlight-seo-techniques.aspx * Browsers! - We have compatibility with Safari, Firefox and obviously Internet Explorer. We are working with the Opera folks but no specifics around that, suffice to say last time I spoke with the teams in Redmond it was something they were taking serious (obviously). I use an iMac and debug with it a lot, so how's that for going against the Microsoft grain ;) heh. * Platforms - We work on OSX (Leopard works, but.. like all stuff atm, give it a couple months to really back that statement up), Windows Vista and via the Moonlight project we are obviously looking to branch out in that space. There are some patent issues our legal folks are working through to ensure that it's all smoothed out and what not, but this is a big step for Microsoft in this space and so we are learning as we go via the guidance of the Moonlight team (whom are awesome). * DLR - Check out the DLR if .NET / C# isn't your cup of tea. There are languages popping up all over the shop around writing code to produce Silverlight (ie Bluedragon folks are working on CFML + Silverlight - that's right, writing CFML in client-side... isn't that a ghost busters moment? I.e. don't cross the streams?). It's pretty exciting to see this happen to be openly honest. Let me know if i can help in anyway shape or form as It's not all that bad - yet I'm wearing the Microsoft logo, so i guess I'm biased :) (that being said 9months ago I was a Flex Fanboi, so i can help with some cross-wiring there). -- Scott Barnes (RIA Evangelist) Microsoft Pty<http://www.microsoft.com/australia> | Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog | Office: +61 (2) 88179139 | Mobile: 0439-072-184 Twitter: twitter.com/mossyblog<http://twitter.com/mossyblog> | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
