Re: Silverlight vs. HTML 5
Bruce Armstrong
JavaFX as in the roadmap. That's a far cry from your earlier statement
about the Canadian government NEVER allowing plug in based technology.
Sybase has announced plans to consider HTML5 for PB15. At the rate the
HTML5 committee is moving, Sybase may be ready before they are.
"Chris Pollach" <cpol...@travel-net.com> wrote:
> Hi Bruce;
>
> That's not from the official site but an "alpha" experimental site on
> the CLF 3.0 standard that Treasury Board is working on. In CLF 3.0,
> they are thinking about adopting multimedia and Flash could be one of
> them.
>
> Note that the planned direction stated in the sample web page is HTML5
> .... HELLO any one at Sybase see that!!!!!!!
Jim O'Neil
characterization of the cycle of standards and innovation is dead on:
http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/the-future-of-silverlight/
Favorite quote: In about half the time HTML 5 has been under design,
we've created Silverlight and shipped four major versions of it.
HTML5 : Waterfall :: Siilverlight : Agile
Mark Maslow
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> 1. If full functionality and multi-browser support were capable with
> HTML4, then the major players wouldn't be working on HTML5 and plugins
> like Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX would not be so popular. Why do you
> expect Sybase to suddenly solve the problem that everyone else has given
> up on? Investing time and money trying to get the current web forms
> approach to do that is a waste of both.
>
Everybody else has given up on? Of course, there are many existing web apps
built with HTML4 that work in most browsers. It's really not that hard if
you use any of the many JS libraries available. We use RichFaces, and our
apps work just fine in FF on Unix and Safari on Mac as well as IE on
windoze. Even works on a Blackberry. The apps are not really built for a
small screen but it does work.
The functionality that's missing is stuff like video, fancy graphics and
animation, sound, etc. Personally, I wouldn't really know how to make good
use of those features anyway.
If I were writing a client that was to be used by heads-down data entry
people for hours at a time, I would probably want something more responsive,
but for casual users, HTML, JS and CSS, even in today's incarnation, can
provide a quite functional solution that is actually friendlier, in the
sense that the paradigm is well known. Just about anybody who has ever used
a browser understands forms and standard HTML input controls. I suspect
there are many users besides myself that are sometimes confused at first
when using a Flash app where it's not immediately obvious just how the
beautiful and wonderfully innovative interface actually works.
Chris Pollach
Here is what George Bush had to say on the SL vs HTML5 subject in his IT
strategy address ...
http://files.blog-city.com/files/M05/128508/b/bushspeech.wmv
:-)
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