Comments on: Impacts of Silverlight for a Flash Programmer

By: dgelineau

dgelineau — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:21:38 +0000

I’m not so sure Microsoft will not finish Silverlight; why wouldn’t they? As for the Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 thingy, I am sure it slowed the adoption rate of Silverlight a bit, but I don’t think it is such a bad move, in the sense that you have to start somewhere and maybe this will boost the adoption rate of Visual Studio 2007 instead.

By: MacManzo

MacManzo — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:25:55 +0000

Want to know why your Flash job is safe? Because MS is never going to finish Silverlight. What do they have now? A beta of silverlight that endusers can’t use, that only works with .NET 3.0, that needs Visual Studio 2007.

I guess you should worry if they ever finish it and make it programmable with Visual Studio 2003 and 2005. But come on, what are the odds of that happening? Really. You’re more likely to die from a lightning strike than to lose your job because of Silverlight.

By: dgelineau

dgelineau — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:12:06 +0000

I don’t know about the penetration rate of Silverlight and I have checked Google Analytics and there is no metrics on it yet, but I guess this will change soon.

What is funny also is that Microsoft doesn’t seem to be pushing their new technology so much. I guess they are waiting for it to be more robust before they start making microsite with it or pushing it trought automatic updates.

By: Gavin Doolan

Gavin Doolan — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:33:05 +0000

Interesting post, I myself tend to agree that Flash has a huge head start and that many users (including myself) do not want to install Silverlight just yet. I was on a guitar tab website just the other day and noticed that it was asking for the Silverlight plugin to be installed. I’m just not interested yet, until I can see an advantage or reason to use it.

I myself can’t stand .NET or programming in it. However I can see a huge advantage in using it for Silverlight, I don’t like Actionscript that much. Although I do use it here and there, I prefer to use the timeline for simple animations.

Do you know of any websites that have stats on Silverlight penetration rates? It would be interesting to see how many are using Silverlight. Which reminds me I’ll have to check and see if Google Analytics records this data as it does for Flash.