[dba-Tech] The state of the web

Silverlight is a dead product. Microsoft is all about touting HTML5 these days and keeping Silverlight at arms length. Notice that they don't support Silverlight in Metro app development.

Besides, it's not wise to use an application framework for internet applications/media that isn't cross platform or supported across all browsers and that's part of the reason it never amounted to much. Another major reason is because Microsoft holds no weight on the mobile platform and, if your video doesn't play on an apple iphone or samsung galaxy because you decided to use silverlight to stream it, well... you have yourself a problem.

Hans



On 2012-12-05, at 1:16 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> LightSwitch looks like a great application allowing very quick development
> but have not had an opportunity to use it myself.
> 
> SilverLight is a browser plugin and though I have not used it, doubt that it
> is allowed on all browsers and on all platforms?
> 
> Jim  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 11:33 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The state of the web
> 
> Hi Jim
> 
> So true.
> 
> My latest small apps were created in LightSwitch and deployed to an external
> host running at a ridicously low monthly charge even though it operates
> ultra reliably.
> I never communicated with the client other than by e-mail, and finally
> posted the URLs to the apps to be launched with SilverLight on the client's
> mix of Mac and Windows computers.
> 
> Can't be easier, except if the new HTML5 client of LightSwitch had been used
> but I'm not there yet.
> 
> /gustav
> 
> 
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jim Lawrence
> Sendt: 4. december 2012 21:04
> Til: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Emne: [dba-Tech] The state of the web
> 
> The web world is more than ever becoming "the" computer world. Most
> development is now done on the web. Whether the Cloud will eventually
> replace most in-house server based systems is debatable and will require
> much more security, management and backup features before it will be
> completely trustable.
> 
> Apple, via Steve Jobs, stopped the whole advance of plug-in technology which
> was patching up browser functionality. It was not done for altruistic
> reasons but to stop third party application from skipping the Apple toll
> booth. But it did have a very important unexpected side-affect. It made
> browser designers dependant on open standards, superfast browsers, gave them
> the ability/responsibility for controlling security, that plug-in would
> never allow and the dominance of HTML5 and CSS3.
> 
> Whether Mark Zuckerberg, likes or dislikes HTML5 is not important as the
> proprietary insecure plug-in world of the past is dead and dying...in fact
> he is trying to buck the tide. How many users will allow another vulnerable
> plug-in to install on their system so they can play a game or two? The other
> option is to use a proprietary server language. It can be built very fast
> but it does not take long before thousands of users will grind the whole
> system to a stop and then huge farms of special servers have to
> integrated...very expensive to own and very expensive to maintain. Those
> type of application solutions, on so many levels are no longer workable.
> 
> The new web world is more and more evolving into distributive open
> standards, where data presentation is managed on the browsers and delegating
> servers for only managing the data marshalling, gathering and storing. 
> 
> http://www.thesecuritypractice.com/the_security_practice/2012/11/in-defense-
> of-html5-1.html
> 
> Jim        
> 
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