The third option [LWN.net]

The third option

Posted Aug 25, 2009 3:46 UTC (Tue) by DOT (subscriber, #58786)
Parent article: Analysis: How Moonlight 2.0 Fits into Novell's Linux and Open Source Plans (Linux.com)

The article is basically Microsoft vs Flash. However, there is a third player in town, much more likely to take over in the end: HTML 5.

What do you think will be more successful: a web application framework created and implemented by Microsoft, a web application framework created and implemented by Adobe, or a web application framework created and implemented by Microsoft, Google, Apple, Mozilla, Nokia and a whole lot more companies?

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The third option

Posted Aug 25, 2009 6:15 UTC (Tue) by nikanth (guest, #50093) [Link] (3 responses)

In fact HTML5 versus Flash is a closer competition than moonlight Vs Flash! Moonlight is similar to Java Applets than Flash

The third option

Posted Aug 25, 2009 6:21 UTC (Tue) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link] (2 responses)

In which way is Moonlight/Silverlight closer to Java Applets?

Silverlight reminds me more of Flex (a way of creating Flash UIs) than anything else, as both describe the user interface in similar ways (using XML dialects).

The third option

Posted Aug 25, 2009 6:27 UTC (Tue) by nikanth (guest, #50093) [Link] (1 responses)

Oh, yes! Moonlight is very similar to flex than applets. But what I meant was that the omni-present tiny flash animations in the web are created using Macromedia Flash IDE/designer, which is missing for moonlight. By flash I meant those time-line based animations, not the purely programmed stuff aka flex.

The third option

Posted Aug 25, 2009 6:39 UTC (Tue) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]

Ah, in that way!

But isn't Expression Blend pretty similar (in terms of features) to the Flash IDE, including timelines?

I'm not sure if Moonlight have Silverlight's built-in timelines yet, though, with Silverlight 2 support still being pretty incomplete and all.