Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 68.79.189.145]
on May 29, 2008 05:59 PM
> Does anyone use Silverlight?
Yes, including the site for the upcoming Olympics website. So, immediately, there will be x million users with the plugin installed.
>Should I, you or anyone really care?
Yes, if you want a rich functionality web application; SIlverlight makes the creation of rich web application dramatically easier and increases performance by using the power available on the client - thus much of the latency introduced by round-trips to the server is eliminated. The code executing on the client has an easy to use cache of data ("isolated storage") and a reasonable framework of functionality.
>And if you want multimedia you can compile from source, nothing like making it easy fo novices!!
Moonlight is in alpha; expecting anything else is unrealistic.
>PS - mono a technology that matters because?
Because .NET matters, regardless of how you feel about M$.
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Re: Novell ushers in Moonlight
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 68.79.189.145] on May 29, 2008 05:59 PMYes, including the site for the upcoming Olympics website. So, immediately, there will be x million users with the plugin installed.
>Should I, you or anyone really care?
Yes, if you want a rich functionality web application; SIlverlight makes the creation of rich web application dramatically easier and increases performance by using the power available on the client - thus much of the latency introduced by round-trips to the server is eliminated. The code executing on the client has an easy to use cache of data ("isolated storage") and a reasonable framework of functionality.
>And if you want multimedia you can compile from source, nothing like making it easy fo novices!!
Moonlight is in alpha; expecting anything else is unrealistic.
>PS - mono a technology that matters because?
Because .NET matters, regardless of how you feel about M$.
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