4 month ago
nelson : Olympics / Silverlight bundling - Markoff calls out Microsoft's strategic move in making Olympics video use their new technology
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9 month ago
wearehugh : Tim Sneath : So You've Installed Silverlight 2 Beta 1: What Next? - bask in the warm radioactive glow of microsoft's generosity? oh wait, was that a rhetorical question?
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18 month ago
Simon Willison : Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days - Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days. Absolutely incredible feat of software engineering by Miguel de Icaza and the Moonlight team.
Rod Begbie : Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days - Miguel de Icaza - Wow! The Mono team produced an open-source implementation of MS's Flash-killer(TM) in 21 days. [via] #
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19 month ago
jimray : Silverlight 1.1 for Macs will be Intel only - This is the version that integrates the .NET runtime. I don't have a huge problem with this as 1.1 is 6-8 months out anyway and a year or more from serious penetration.
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19 month ago
deusx : shaver » the high cost of some free tools - "We also don’t make you sign licensing agreements to get the format specifications, or prevent you from competing with us. We don’t tell you where you can and can’t install the software. We don’t tell you what you can and can’t tell people
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19 month ago
jimray : Dare Obasanjo thinks Silverlight will make AJAX obsolete - sigh...
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19 month ago
Rod Begbie : Silly season [dive into mark] - Beautiful summation of the current Adobe Apollo/Microsoft Silverlight hype-off from Mark Pilgrim. "That poster may as well be titled "Fucked 6 Ways From Sunday," because that's what you'll be if you buy into any of this." #
jimray : Mark Pilgrim on Apollo, Silverlight and why he doesn't think you should use either - "Y’all have fun. Play with your vendor-specific runtimes. Don’t call me when you wake up one morning with a pink line in the round window and your BFF vendor won’t return your calls."
Simon Willison : Silly season - Silly season. Mark expresses exactly what I’ve been thinking. The fawning over Silverlight and Apollo is incredibly short sighted.
jcgregorio : Silly season [dive into mark] - ""building applications on the web that works."" Of course, all the commenters skip the money quote and try to defend their share-cropping platform of choice.
deusx : Silly season [dive into mark] - "Sigh. I used to have the strength to argue against such foolishness. Nowadays I’m reduced to nothing more than Grey’s-Anatomy-esque catchphrases."
nelson : Silly season - Mark is cynical so I don't have to be
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19 month ago
nelson : Silverlight overview - Techcrunch's love note to Microsoft's latest attempt at owning webapps contains useful data
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factoryjoe : Tim Sneath : Introducing Microsoft Silverlight - It is with tremendous pleasure that I can reveal Microsoft Silverlight: our next-generation, cross-platform, cross-browser web client runtime. Silverlight (previously codenamed "WPF/E") is a lightweight subset of XAML for building rich m
wearehugh : Tim Sneath : Introducing Microsoft Silverlight
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