HTML5 vs. Silverlight aka Ajax vs. Java Applets. A trip in the time machine
Yesterday I attended the Keynotes to the Mix developer Conference in Las Vegas via Live Stream. They showed quite amazing stuff there using HTML5 with hardware acceleration in IE9. Folks at Microsoft really seemed to scorn Google's Chrome - showed up several Demos where Google Chrome was lame and IE9 kicked ass. Was quite funny but that's not what made me write this. I attended the keynotes to see where the Microsoft trip goes to. At my current company Krones I have the task to propose a graphic framework for the future. There are lots of native applications, some using Win Forms, some even using old VB. Others are ASP.NET applications and run in the browser only. We'll have to port these applications and find a common graphic plattform for them: Or almost common. Some time ago I hit the PRISM framework making it possible to have one architecture for your WPF and Silverlight applications under the hood. I made some small steps with Silverlight 3 in 2009 and was quite am...