Whats All The Hype About Silverlight?
Microsoft announced they were producing a “flash” copy/clone/ripp-off (call it what you want) and since then has recieved an unjustified amount of hype.
I don’t understand the hype? All they are doing are creating another bulky (probably buggy and insecure) clone of a tool we already have! The hype problem stems from Techcrunch’s coverage of the product which is obviously there because Microsoft is one of the blogs advertisers!
Correct me if im wrong but this is going to go down the same path as ASP. Only Government and Microsoft sites are going to use it. Actually, it looks as if Microsoft isn’t planning on using it anytime soon!
Update: I just received an interesting email from a reader that makes a very important point. I quote “although this is a cross browser tool, do you really believe Mac users will start developing using SilverLight”. I think not!
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There could be one thing up microsoft’s sleeve…
Awhile ago you could just view and use anything using Flash on any site just by clicking it. Now it wont work, and when you hover over it, there is a fuzzy line around the flash and the words ‘click to activate this control’ pop up. I had read this was over some lawsuit, that microsoft had to make this change to their browser, although i cant remember the specifics. Maybe M$ thinks that if they have their own version of flash, people would adopt it because having a flash animation work without clicking it gives a better user experience.
its about the only thing i can think of as to why M$ would do this…
If you’re getting a fuzzy line around flash then your using IE! For Gods sake just use Firefox.