Comments on: Why WPF/E Will Kill Flash

By: Elegant Code » Today’s MSDN Event

Elegant Code » Today’s MSDN Event — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:34:33 +0000

[...] I was right. Silver Light is going to beat the pants off Flash. [...]

By: Kaveh

Kaveh — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:08:37 +0000

This is the most “incorrect” phrase of a man mind! Everything that does not interoperate with linux is useless! Because Linux is free and there are always a few people that can not pay for buggy Windows! And as IT is being more practical day by day in all countries, Windows is fading out. In 5 years Linux and Mac and windows will be equal rivals. (Almost as always Microsoft can copy everything.)

By: Daddy Starr

Daddy Starr — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:23:39 +0000

Thanks for the link, Ken. I agree that mS has a lot of catching up to do. I am sure that we are 18 months away from seeing genuine feature parity, but when we do, I suspect that the embedded CLR will make all the difference.

I think the real point is that this new packaging of “flash-ness” will change the mindset of typical developers and we will see more button and dtagrid type applications done in WPF/E.

By: Ken Rawlings

Ken Rawlings — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:12:40 +0000

Things have changed quite a bit with Flash in the last year. Take a look at the Flex Builder IDE and the Flex 2 framework. The Flex 2 framework is more enterprise ready than WPF/E and while Actionscript 3 is no match for the CLR it is more capable than the Javascript engines that WPF/E v1 will be leveraging.

Here is a good article on the limitations of WPF/E for application development:

http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/ShowPost.aspx?id=16785

I prefer the WPF/E model over the SWF model myself, but Microsoft has a lot of catching up to do, both from a technology standpoint and ubiquity of the WPF/E runtime (although of course they could always push it out as a critical update like they did with IE7)