Comments on: A Flash Developer’s Take on Silverlight

By: See, Even Flash Developers Like Silverlight | Mark Tinderholt on Silverlight and WPF

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:54:34 +0000

[...] Devilla posted an interesting article about a Flash developer’s reflections upon delivering with Silverlight. It’s worth a read. [...]

By: Andrej

Andrej — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:56:03 +0000

Silverlight may be better for videos under the hood, but unfortunately it copies the UI brain damage from Flash that doesn’t let you have a fullscreen video without focus. Apparently nobody at Adobe or Microsoft has ever used a computer with more than one monitor…

Also I’ve never seen an embedded video player that could speed up a video (speeding up playback of many technical lectures is a must for staying awake).

I hope it’s as easy to save a silverlight-fronted video for local playback with a real video player as it is with Flash…

By: Rachel Carvalho

Rachel Carvalho — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:43:05 +0000

As a .NET developer who’s been in a past life a Flash developer (*shivers*), I need to say that I believe that there’s no comparison in developing on those two platforms.

The .NET platform is much superior than Flash (and even Flex) to develop in. But, I do not agree with developing a whole website that requires a plugin that reaches much less public than Flash and, most importantly, is not available at all (officially) for Linux.

So, in order to access Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show website, I need to have paid for a license of Windows or Mac OS. Or else, I need to install the open implementation Moonlight — which, if it is as compatible with the official one as Mono is with the .NET Framework, it’s just the same as viewing a still image of a video.

Anyway, just my thoughts. As much as I rather by a long shot developing for .NET, I don’t think it should be considered as a feasible solution.