By rick
via realsoftwaredevelopment.com
Published: May 21 2009 / 17:02
The Silverlight vs. Flash SmackDown was a smashing success!
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Comments
Miloskov replied ago:
mark haniford replied ago:
There's really no comparison. On the technical front, Silverlight is lightyears ahead of Flash. The only thing Flash has for it is great market penetration. Adobe should just write a Java compiler for Flash.
andrewm replied ago:
what you say is true, but often if the technology is "good enough", then the market penetration becomes the absolute killer.
there are a couple of problems with silverlight:
1. windows is the 1st class citizen here.
-- i can look at flash sites under linux just fine. my wife and kids rely on html and flash so much they don't even realise what OS they use, ever. don't get me started on moonlight, which i've never been able to get to work for me.
2. the design toolset isn't as mature
as for flash being good enough, i'm constantly staggered by the quality, creativity and technical prowess of the latest batch of flash games. try this one: http://armorgames.com/play/301/fancy-pants-adventures . my kids used to play this all the time, and i'm still amazed by the organic quality of the animation. as for videos, i've never had a problem under any platform with flash. it's literally solved the cross-platform video streaming problem. and great flash apps like grooveshark have convinced me that flash more or less completely owns that space. the only other competitor for things that are not so interactive is dhtml + javascript.
andrewm replied ago:
by the way, the smackdown looks heavily biased towards silverlight. they complain about the quality of big buck bunny blender video through vimeo (uses flash). i've watched this great video through vimeo many, many times on many computers and have never had a single problem with it.
mike_eci replied ago:
Silverlight just copies flash features e.g h.264, aiming to record audio etc that flash innovated and brought to the table years back, so god knows how you reckon they're light years ahead. Wake me up when silverlight brings something interesting to the table that is *new* or actually begins to get a portfolio even a 100th as impressive as e.g thefwa.com
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