from this post:
http://www.osnews.com/story/23966/Microsoft_Changes_Silverlight_Strategy_Focuses_on_HTML5
" Microsoft is betting big on HTML5 instead, turning Silverlight into the development platform for Windows Phone, and that's it. So... Silverlight is dead - long live Silerlight?"
Why does this not surprise me?
Why does this not surprise me?
The question is if Progress' was expecting that shift (if it's an official shift and not just a rumor with nothing behind it).
A couple of weeks back, Gus mentioned on peg a "RIA adapter for Microsoft's Silverlight" for OpenEdge 11. What's Progress view on that now?
I imagine it's "!#@#$%#$" M$!
This is an unexpected shift from our point of view. We certainly knew about the Windows Phone OS support for Silverlight. But there is a lot of traction behind Silverlight and there are many projects underway by both OpenEdge customers and Microsoft customers with Silverlight. We are still committed to a Silverlight adapter for OE 11 and are starting a "Proof of Concept" shortly. Of course we will follow Microsoft's comments on Silverlight very closely and continue to evaluate our RIA direction.
If you have any comments/suggestions, please let me know.
-Shelley
Hi Shelly,
My initial comment would be that if a huge amount of platforms support html5 and Google seems to be heading that way (andorid, chromeOS etc) and that there are a number of IDE and platforms around that support html5 (iUI, iWebKit JQTouch, Sencha Touch, etc) would it not be better to see if html5 was a better bet than SilverLight ?
Julian
This discussion is certainly getting some press for Microsoft. Here are some interesting links...
http://amazedsaint.blogspot.com/2010/10/silverlight-vs-html-5-debate-dilemma.html
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/service-oriented/microsoft-favoring-html5-over-silverlight-reports/6056
http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/10/29/ms-favors-html-5-over-silverlight-for-cross-platform/
-Shelley
Hopefully this is what we want to hear!
http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/pdc-and-silverlight/
I don't know - from the tone and comments in this article, it seems pretty sure where they are heading:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/01/muglia_silverlight_future/
Quote "Both Muglia and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer - speaking at last week's Professional Developers' Conference (PDC) - have made it clear: HTML5 is now considered the future for building rich interfaces for web-connected devices."
@Shelley: I hope that you still stick to the plan to provide a Silverlight adapter. I find it hard to believe that html 5 could be as productive and usable for business applications as Silverlight is, even in a few years time frame. WCF RIA Services is a very interesting pattern and if Progress AppServer is integrated with that, we could have a very nice framework for RIA.
Marko
And I spoke about it again when I was in Australia recently.
IMHO, there is currently no reason for us to change course. We decided to do the Silverlight adapter because customers were interesed in having it. As far as I know, they still are.
I would say that MS is planning a charm offensive (one it needs IMHO):
Now it seems as if html5 is going to be used for windows 8 development as well
another interesting nugget in respect of windows 8
http://blog.nodejs.org/2011/06/23/porting-node-to-windows-with-microsoft%E2%80%99s-help/
MS are helping port node.js (http://www.nodejs.org/) to windows as a native .exe
seems like they are really going to be using Javascript big time, for front end (windows 8) and backend (node.js)
Ouch. It's official. Silverlight / Flash are not supported in the windows 8 metro IE 10 browser.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/14/metro-style-browsing-and-plug-in-free-html5.aspx
IE10 will continue to run silverlight (and other plugins) in desktop mode. Plus you can also run silverlight OOB.
Metro is about more than "browser" though ... so if win8 & metro is your concern there are bigger issues in your path.
Microsoft have also announced that WinRT is the direction forward, and hence the focus on a declarative framework. Silverlight will morph into this model, and some of the toolset for doing this (and thus running in the non-plugin IE10 mode) is already in pre-release - and shown at recent events, although it doesnt make a great press release