Microsoft Silverlight

[specise_8472]

Has anyone here had a play with this new technology yet?

http://silverlight.net

I have just been given VS2008 that has this incorporated into it. Wondering what people thought of it before playing with it.

[sillKotscha]

Has anyone here had a play with this new technology yet?

no... ;)

but to be honest, i dont see any point in silverlight - what advantages will it deliver over current flash implementations?

as with Adobe's latest Flash 9 plugin it is now possible to play h.264 video and HE-AAC audio, what else does anyone want?

ok, competition is always good - but I can't see any USP for silverlight (vs. flash).

and as I said - even h.264 video and HE-AAC audio is now possible with flash - u just need the latest RC flash plugin from adobe...

info (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/) and download (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html)

and on top of it all...

the latest - free - FLV PLAYER by Jeroen Wijering (http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player) can play *.mp4 files (and not only *.flv) with this latest flash plugin by adobe - in other words... u don't need Adobe's Media Player prerelease for it ;)

sorry for hijacking your thread :rolleyes:

/ sill

[stax76]

Tech wise MS does everything .NET related right, there will be a dynamic VB version that can probably be used to script desktop applications too, the designer Blend looks also very cool.

I doubt however Silverlight will be a very successful for political reasons and I don't care much since I'm not into web tech. What's currently used seem to work good enough and with the competition of Silverlight will now probably improve much faster.

[Inventive Software]

Where Silverlight wins is (finally) making WMV9 / VC-1 multi-platform in browsers, something which has been missing for a while.

[Shinigami-Sama]

the only thing I see silverlight doing is pushing adobe to actually make some improvements, which I doubt will happen anyways
has adobe ever made anything with decent speeds?

[Inventive Software]

Acrobat 1 for DOS? :p

[CruNcher]

hehe hey but they allready improved the rendering speed and CPU utilization and if H.264 hardware accelleration comes soon their up to Silverlight then (Video wise).
Tough i must have to say i like Silverlight more, because it's newer and still faster :D and Linux support is there through Moonlight, now if H.264 support comes i would prefer it 100% over Adobes Flash ;)

[Shinigami-Sama]

hehe hey but they allready improved the rendering speed and CPU utilization and if H.264 hardware accelleration comes soon their up to Silverlight then (Video wise).
Tough i must have to say i like Silverlight more, because it's newer and still faster :D and Linux support is there through Moonlight, now if H.264 support comes i would prefer it 100% over Adobes Flash ;)

no shit
but its not hard to increase speed in something as slow as molasses anyways
when a simple 640:480 low motion platform flash game can bring an amd3500+ to 100% load with ease....

but I do agree
if silverlight does get its act together fast enough they might be able to overtake adobe, or if they make licensing not cost an arm a leg both testicles and first second and third born...
but I doubt its ganna happen, I'll be glad if it does though

[dimzon]

Siverlight is completely based on OPEN standarts (like CLR/XML/WPF) - it's main!

[Sharktooth]

... and VC-1 ...

[Shinigami-Sama]

Siverlight is completely based on OPEN standarts (like CLR/XML/WPF) - it's main!

based on, doesn't mean much if they put a bunch of proprietary stuff in it too

[dimzon]

based on, doesn't mean much if they put a bunch of proprietary stuff in it too
wich stuff you talking about? there are moonlight - complete open source implementation anyway

[Sharktooth]

windows media audio for example?

[dimzon]

windows media audio for example?
isn't WMA decoder implementation part of libav/ffmpeg

[Sharktooth]

yup, but that doesnt mean it's not proprietary...