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Monday, 13 June 2011

Has HTML5 Actually killed Silverlight

There have been lots of hue and cry over how HTML5 being superior than silverlight and how it will kill silverlight..Lots have been said regarding this but if you actually look at where silverlight actually makes sense then you will be amazed by the potential it provides for a .Net developer like me..
I have really been fascinated to mobile phone programming off late, More so since telecom industry is still an untapped industry in india( compared to other countries) and there is huge potential in gaming market whose boom is yet to come..Most of the people in india are still using mobile for receiving a call and sending an SMS but the potential for mobile application is huge and will increase with awareness..
Off late I have seen my friends using geolocator services in their mobile phones to search for routes while on a trip..
How do I create these applications as a .Net developer since what i know about mobile apps is that they are created in objective C or some other .Net languages..With the advent of silverlight it has opened a new dimension for a .net developer to start work on mobile apps...You can use silverlight to create applications for Windows Phone..
Below is an article from Tom Warren why Silverlight is not dead...
Please follow the link for complete story

1 comment:

  1. This is a very well written blog. I agree that there is no tooling at the level we have for Silverlight to make HTML5 websites.

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