First Look At Microsoft Silverlight 3 228
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snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Martin Heller finds Silverlight 3 gaining ground on Adobe Flash, Flex, and AIR in all the areas where Silverlight 2 had lagged. No longer do developers need to build desktop WPF apps based loosely on corresponding Silverlight RIAs, as Silverlight 3 adds the ability to install Silverlight apps on the desktop, update them in place, detect Net connectivity state changes, and store data locally and securely. Moreover, solid Expression Blend 3 and Visual Studio 2010 betas provide developers with much improved tools to create Silverlight RIAs. '"I do not expect many Adobe shops to give up their Flash, Flex, and AIR for Silverlight 3. I do expect many Microsoft shops to do more RIAs with Silverlight now that it's more capable and to create lightweight browser/desktop Silverlight 3 applications where they might have fashioned heavier-weight Windows Forms or WPF client applications," Heller says.'"
Gaining ground! (Score:3, Funny)
I would sooner accept the existence of elves, gremlins, and Eskimos, than Silverlight apps in the wild.
Silverlight = Silverfish (Score:2, Funny)
Silverlight is a terrible marking choice for a name. I automatically think 'silverfish' when I see the word in print, and find myself substituting that word when I say 'silverlight' or sound it out in my head.
Silverfish, as far as I know, are a small bug that scuttles down further into your mattress when you pull up the covers.
Work on it a little in your head:
Silverlight ,,, Silverfish
Silverlight ... Silverfish
I think you, too will start to associate silverfish... er ..light, with a scourge.
Re:I still use Windows XP. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I still use Windows XP. (Score:2, Funny)
I'd like to know where you got bikini models that can do binary math.