Silverlight —
After looking at Silverlight 2, it seemed to me that Apple might be considering Silverlight for the iPhone. And just now, Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie, live on stage at Mix 08 in Las Vegas dropped a hint that suggested Microsoft may have already done the deal. He said something like - Expect to see Microsoft putting [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft has just released a product called Popfly; right now, it’s an invitation-only alpha release (see the web-site). What is Popfly? It’s an easy-to-use software tool that lets pretty much anyone create simple Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and simple video games quickly and easily. And, by “anyone”, I mean that even people that [...]
Update - I’m talking about JavaFX Script here… actually, JavaFX is more than that (more on the whole of JavaFX here).
Sun is announcing JavaFX today (its code name was F3). The company is positioning it as a competitor to Flash/Flex, Apollo and Silverlight. JavaFX is a scripting language for the Java [...]
It’s taken a long time, but Linux is finally to be offered on laptops and desktops targetted at consumers by Dell (see the CNET story). Dell has chosen the popular and consumer-friendly desktop Linux distro, Ubuntu. It will be interesting to see the uptake.
Please note - consumers buying Ubuntu Linux laptops and desktops won’t be [...]
Microsoft has just announced the details of its plans for building the .NET runtime and .NET class libraries into its new Silverlight, cross-platform, cross-browser Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform. It’s an important announcement. The devil is in the detail with all this stuff, and from what Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie has said, I [...]
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 [...]