Flash is a platform [LWN.net]

Flash is a platform

Posted May 27, 2008 12:56 UTC (Tue) by massimiliano (subscriber, #3048)
In reply to: Flash is a platform by creyes123
Parent article: Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta

Of course, working on Mono I'm biased, but...

Think 'platform-independent Silverlight with a couple year lead'.

...the reality is that Flash (and Flex) are "platform-independent" only on paper, and in practice work only where Adobe cares to release its plugin (and ofter poorly even there, seeing all the issues we have with Flash on Linux).

Silverlight, on the other hand, has a Free Software implementation (Moonlight) which is "blessed" as the official implementation on Linux, while remaining Free.
IMHO, this is way better then the Flash situation, and it's not something that we have to wait for, it's already there.

So, choosing Flex over Silverlight for purely technical reasons is something I can understand, but choosing it because it is "platform-independent" is something I don't get...

Just my two cents.

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