Nine Silverlight 2 Features Guaranteed to Break the Web | Steve Apiki- RiA Develpoment Center
This site should be called the Silverlight Developers Center.
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Keep an Open Eye » Silverlight Full Court Press
very important discussion on RiA and the standards implementation of HTML-CSS-DOM-JavaScript technologies. Excellent!
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Nokia and Google: Too much emphasis on the mobile OS? | ge TalkBack on ZDNet
Interesting discussion about a universal web application layer able to wrok across devices, browsers and web service systems. I reponded with a very lengthy post about WebKit.
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Runtime wars (1): Does Apple have an answer to Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX? « counternotions
Another excellent discussion concerning the Future of the Web. 2 Parts
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Flash Wars: Adobe in the History and Future of Flash [Part 1 of 3] | AppleInsider Prince McLean
First part of three part series. Covers RiA history of Flash and SVG
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Running beyond the browser
Although there are many ways to slice this discussion, it might be useful to compare Adobe RIA and Microsoft Silverlight RIA in terms of web ready, highly interactive documents. The Adobe RIA story is quite different from that of Silverlight. Both however exploit the shortcomings of browsers; shortcomings that are in large part, i think, due to the disconnect the browser community has had with the W3C. The W3C forked off the HTML-CSS path, putting the bulk of their attention into XML, RDF and the Semantic Web. The web developer community stayed the course, pushing the HTML-CSS envelope with JavaScript and some rather stunning CSS magic. Adobe seems to have picked up the HTML-CSS-Javascript trail with a Microsoft innovation to take advantage of browser cache, DHTML (Dynamic HTML). DHTML morphs into AJAX, (which so wild as to have difficulty scaling). And AJAX gets tamed by an Adobe-Apple sponsored WebKit. Most people see WebKit as a browser specific layout engine, and compare it to the IE and Gecko on those terms. I would argue however that WebKit is both a document model and, a document format. For sure it's a framework for very advanced HTML-CSS-DOM-Javascript work. Because the Adobe AIR run-time is based on WebKit layout, WebKit documents can hit on all cylinders across any browser able to implement the AIR plug-in. Meaning, web developers and web content providers need only target the WebKit document model to attain the interactive access ubiquity all seek. Very cool. Let me also add that the WebKit HTML-CSS-DOM-Javascript model is capable of "fixed/flow" representation. I'll explain the importance of "fixed/flow" un momento, but think about how iPhone renders a web page and you'll understand the "flow" side of this equation.
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Running Beyond the Browser | Move Over AJAX, ARAX is Here - Darryl Taft of eWeek
Darryl Taft posts an interesting question concerning running Ruby in a browser, and Microsoft's Silverlight proposal to do that with ARAX. I think he misses the larger context of the rise of RIA, and the wane of AJAX. In particular, he misses the significance of two important RIA aspects: The Adobe RIA runs on the WebKit layout engine and document model. Microsoft RIA (Silverlight) runs on XAML "fixed/flow". XAML "fixed/flow" is in effect, the web ready representation of MSOffice-OOXML. And Silverlight the Windows Presentation Foundation layer gone portable.
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Kevin Lynch on Adobe's AIR: Extending the Web beyond the Browser - Knowledge@Wharton
good interview with Kevin Lynch about the future of the Web. Covers AIR, Flex, Flash, Silverlight and how the Web is moving from universal access and exchange of documents to that of applications. Lynch places Adboe products into a larger context of which problems these inventions solved. The new problem is that of expanding the Web to the desktop through these emerging universal applications.
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Do new Web tools spell doom for the browser? | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-05-12 | By Neil McAllister
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AppleInsider | Flash Wars: The Many Enemies and Obstacles of Flash [Part 2 of 3]
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Microsoft Silverlight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Silverlight Wikipedia description
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Live Mesh: Windows Becomes the Web | Microsoft Watch - Web Services & Browser -
Joe Wilcox takes on MS "Live Mesh" in a series of articles. Clearly he gets it but one has to wonder about the rest of the techno crowd.
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Ten things to know about Microsoft’s Live Mesh | Mary Jo | ZDNet.com
Microsoft introduces Live-Mesh, and Mary Jo runs through the ten things that caught her attention.
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