Well i am off at the Microsoft TAP event for Siliverlight, and asking the question why. Its not i have anything against Microsoft working on a cross platform, cross language development and deployment package, or the fact that “Flash” can do much of this already, its just that the moving between what is avalible and what hypothetically will be avalible in some distant future, or the this is version 1 and well in version 2……. this is exactly what giver Microsoft a checkered name.
Having said that the first speaker (key note address) was great and it was exciting to hear and see some of the possibilities. i get so frustrated though that yes i want tools, but no i am not a programmer, i am a designer, so how do i visualize and integrate my thoughts and visions into the programming cycle. I use Mind-manager, a pencil,Paper (the original Laptop) but not a computer. so with all these new(?) tools i now need to build in movement, scale and color guess i need to break out the crayons and take a tip from my 3 year old in the visualisation stakes.
XAML the new programming language looks good but it does look a lot like XML, and how does this all fit into the W3C world of the net, is it SENDA compatible. No answers yet.
In the cut and thrust of the market lead world i do feel flash needs a good competitor, to help regulate price, but flash is a fairly independent tool and it could be 4 or 5 years before there are enough dot net programmers to really take advantage of this whole new set of tools. That could mean losing 2 years good marketing ground to what i am sure will start to become a developing market, and we all know ADOBE will not sit still, and will start to mobalise the huge Flash programming market to stay ahead.
Having said this there are some neat tools, and stand alone apps such as Photosynth which could provide some off the shelf out of box solutions to data (pictorial) visualization and manipulation problems, and this could force ahead the silverlight agenda.
Where will we see this new(ish) technology first aired to the Nets populous at large, well the commercial sector (Hard Rock have already got a silverlight site) the big players first, including the US economies biggest net player…….the porn industry, i am sure this will be a good economic indicator of market penetration, or
am i just being old and synical?
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