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The world of the Rich Internet Application (RIA) just took a couple of fascinating turns. Silverlight version 2 is now out in beta; and it looks… well it looks TOTALLY AMAZING. It can be programmed using serious, elegant, programming languages; it has great tool support; and a version of Silverlight is coming to mobile phones [...]
There are now three significant platforms for rich internet application (RIA) development: Flash, from Adobe; Java, from Sun Microsystems; and now the brand new Silverlight (WPF/E) from Microsoft (I’m leaving AJAX out of this discussion). Currently, there’s a big debate around the question - which of these technologies will win out? In [...]
Last November, I wrote about Sun needing to up the pace of innovation with Java ME if they want to keep up with Flash Lite. Now, Microsoft may be about to trump both Sun (Java ME) and Adobe (Flash/Flash Lite).
Microsoft’s plans for WPF/E are starting to look pretty impressive: a well-designed technology; [...]
I’ve blogged before about Google attempting to increase usage of its toolbar via bundling. Now Google has done another deal. This time the company has paid Adobe to bundle the Google Toolbar with Adobe’s Shockwave/Flash multimedia player.
I’m not quite sure why Google believes that anyone really wants to use their toolbar. I understand [...]