> > I believe MS's own site are done in Silverlight more and more, so that's one reason > > Silverlight's a fair amount easier to develop in than the alternatives since you can > use your favorite .NET compatible language (C#, Visual Basic, IronPython, whatever) > and the Visual Studio UI designer wizards. It's essentially the same as XNA, which > all the Xbox 360 "Indie" games are written in, except with GUI support instead of > DirectX hooks. That said, nobody has it installed and that means you're better off > using Flash for sites you want a lot of people to see. > > Silverlight's also the environment apps are written in for Windows Phone 7 (it also > has XNA available for games). > > > Another, question though, is what the heck is Adobe Air? yeah, another web player > but > > why when they already have Flash and Shockwave? - What does it do that they don't? > > Air's a layer on top of Flash that tries to make it a complete application platform. > It's even clunkier than that sounds like, but RIM (the BlackBerry guys) are pretty > much betting the company on it.
I've actually used a few AIR applications and they're okay, it's kinda crippled -on purpose- due to security issues.
It's great for downloading GOG.com's games, though!
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