Silverlight or not Silverlight....
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- Elfangio
I have an invitation to bild up a comunity project based on s.NET and Silverlight. The development leader insists in silverlight... I am more Flash guy, but I am "just the designer". I will have to leran about blend and so on and I have a little problem with Microsoft applications (preconception I guess). What do u guys think? Will Silverlight came to stay? Will or it is a good tool? I need advice, the project is very intereting and I dont want to make a bad desition based on a tech stupidity, but it will take me extra efforth to dominate a new tool...I look like a little girl now :D
cheers
- designbot0
It's all about whether or not people embrace it. We all decide it's fate by choosing to use it or not to use it.
The demo's I saw looked pretty cool, but I have not done anything with it yet.
- richardkark0
If you interested in making web-based software then go for it. Flash is better about aesthetic and user-experience but silverlight is super rigid, yet has a lot of possibilities for developers.
- well my contribution in the project will be a lot maybe 90% about the astheticsElfangio
- Elfangio0
well you can also develop App with Flex...wjt they argument is the .NET integration. My issue is the tool, Blend, its not so intuitive, or maybe, its just me!
- richardkark0
I went to a Silverlight Demo and, from an animation perspective, Silverlight is a joke. It's pretty new though, so hopefully they'll make it better in future versions. Blend is actually similar to Flash, you build the assets and embed them within each other like movieclips, but you can't add any functionality till you compile it with javascript/XMAL in Visual Studio.
- sototallycarl0
personally i am all for more web tech, but anything with a direct competitor needs to make a splash in a big way to stick. i haven't seen a reason to adopt it... yet. and the mac plugin never worked for me.
- CyBrain0
First of all, you are the designer does not mean that the developer gets to decide. If that's what you're comfortable with and what will make the project more succesful then maybe you need another developer who can work with a plug in that 90-something % of people have. Don't be so quick to give in. Why does he want to use Silverlight? Why do you want to use Flash. I have a feeling you would win that debate.
- Elfangio0
Well he develops in .NET since years, he feels confortable in his envoirment of development. IDE in Flash sucks for developers. Debuging is not so intuitive for them, etc. I have to see, BUT the issue here is I have to jump out if I decide I dont want to use Blend.
- Milan0
I just started using this to communicate between flash and .net, pretty cool stuff.
http://www.fluorinefx.com/
- meffid0
I keep getting them confused
- SG0
If he hates the IDE for flash, build it in flex. That has usually shut up every .net elitist i've crossed paths with. Or I just tell them to build what you need in .Net, if they can't do it I do it myself, then just write the integration code in actionscript as usual. Web services/soap/rest are cake.
- That's in the context that the .Net develoer has to have his hands in the presentation layer, if you can keep him out of flash all together then your golden assuming you know how to consume his .net data services.SG
- Elfangio0
So how can I keep him out of flash? I need to be very good in consuming web services and so on, right, I have to put my hands a lot deep in code I guess!!
- thatblokemike0
lot of people take the back seat or sit on the fence. Either because they want to seem like they intelligently weigh up all the options and in some cases it could be the right platform or because they don't want to knock what they haven't tried.
but personally I haven't tried sex with animal, but know it wouldn't be a great experience so I wont bother. I think Microsoft should sort their browser out before trying to branch out with imitation software. I could definitely think of other projects that would be more appealing. And I wouldn't be surprised if microsoft are paying for the company to have the application built to gets some brands on the books, make it look like people are actually interested.