An Overview of Microsoft Silverlight
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by Joydip Kanjilal
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Silverlight and Adobe - Who will be the winner

With Silverlight around, is it the end of the road for Adobe? Maybe yes, to a large extent. You have in Silverlight usage of XAML, the runtime speed, a wide range of flexible options with a variety of programming language support, a strong multimedia support, compatibility and support for the .NET managed environment and even more! According to some industry tycoons, it is going to become a "Flash-killer" and very well poised to dethrone Adobe in no time.

Still, you will find some critics who often create controversy so as to usher a new light in the horizon. Silverlight has been criticized often for the lack of Linux support or any platform other than Windows and Mac OS X, citing it as a factor that could limit the widespread adoption of Silverlight in the development community around the globe.

It has further encountered criticism for ignoring existing international standards. According to Ryan Paul of Ars Technica, Microsoft could have chosen SVG to implement the vector graphics subset, instead of a "limited and compatible facsimile," to show their commitment to open standards and also fix the standards problems that plagues Internet Explorer. He feels this is inconsistent with Microsoft’s ignoring of open standards in other products as well.

Moreover, according to David Betz, a standards advocate, Microsoft would have needed to alter the SVG specification to add .NET integration and UI constructs on top of SVG.  Consequently, the "choice by Microsoft to use XAML over SVG, served to retain the SVG standard by not adding proprietary technology" he further reiterates.


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