Comments on: Flash vs. Silverlight, My Official Opinion

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Adobe Flash Catalyst Alpha Released « User Interface Hero — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:41:07 +0000

[...] This is not about Flash vs. Silverlight. I’ve already covered that topic here. [...]

By: Dipak M. Patel

Dipak M. Patel — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:04:05 +0000

Although Silverlight is in its infancy, I believe it has much more promise in the future based on the potential to be seamlessly integrated within the Windows platform. True that Blend may not have the bells and whistles today, but it will… The idea of an integrated design, development, and deployment platform is very enticing.

For now, the challenge seems to be the critical mass it will require for Silverlight to even take off….no designer, no developers, no innovation… In fact, I’m working on a hot little start up building a Silverlight app for the video gamers, and our team consists of everyone but the front end UI guru. Know anyone??

By: Ben Sykes

Ben Sykes — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:13:09 +0000

I have used both religiously at this point. One because I love to.. and the other because I have too! (not saying which one) I have found that as per video, FLV compression (v2 codec) is by far, much more clear / robust.. Silverlight video is remnant of the early 90’s (grainy, rasterized).. even with the new Expression Encoder (http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/overview.aspx?key=encoder)

Not bad for V1.. but miles to go

By: Stelt

Stelt — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:06:34 +0000

I’ll go for the really open solution: SVG
And so do many: http://svg.startpagina.nl

By: Sandman

Sandman — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:05:42 +0000

Eeek.. yet another 9 hundred pound gorilla attempt to takeover another market. Whateva. I’m not impressed. Flash has created a major niche in the market and I don’t see many animators or flash developers easily switching over when they have a platform/application that works already. If its anything like the experiences with .net’s other applications and MS’s way of approaching design, I’ll pass thank you very much.

On the other note, truly I don’t blame OS X users either.. LOL. Why, the only thing that keeps me on the windows OS right now is, 1. the fact that I have to use it at work. 2. games that I play are windows only. but that may soon change when I get my first Intel based mac and run a dual boot OS X/Windows system. Just my 2 cents.