Microsoft is not ready to let Silverlight loose against Canvas

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Microsoft is honest in the recent blog post about using one platform to build another by saying that “some people have gone as far as to suggest HTML 5 could eliminate the need for Flash and Silverlight”. Yes, we do want to go that far and we don’t want Flash or Silverlight addons / plugins (call them however you like) in our fully capable, HTML 5 compliant web browser! I mean, why should we want them if Canvas is perfectly capable of achieving the same task ? Well, one of the answer is due to Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer: as of version 8, it still doesn’t support the Canvas element. And Microsoft’s solution is pretty funny: we don’t support the Canvas element but look, our own Silverlight can do it. There is no way you won’t install Silverlight now, right ? Wrong !

Microsoft releases Silverlight 2

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

A little more than a year after its first release, Microsoft today announces the immediate availability of the second version of its Silverlight plugin. Silverlight 2 is a programmable web browser and mobile phone plugin whose main goal is to compete with Adobe’s Flash in vector graphics, animation, online video streaming… and many other “rich” user-experience tasks. And it seems to be working as Silverlight is now available for a quarter of the consumers worldwide, according to Yahoo’s article.

Silverlight on Web2Generators

Microsoft is not ready to let Silverlight loose against Canvas

Microsoft releases Silverlight 2