On Silverlight and the Dangers of Over-specialization - by Damon Payne
It’s been quite a long time since I’ve written any new Silverlight code. Reduced solely to its core suite of technologies, Silverlight is certainly still as cool as it was two years ago. I am probably not alone, though, in claiming that I see less and less interest in Silverlight as time goes by. In my opinion, Steve Jobs killed the browser plugin ecosystem overnight with his anti-Flash rants and refusal to give Flash a place on the iPad. We are living in the renaissance of the front end web developer. To a large degree, I don’t mind this. It’s been years since jQuery took a way a great deal of the pain of Javascript, and projects like Foundation are taking away the pain of CSS. No, we’ve come a long way since my days of pre-Ajax hacking with posting-back hidden iframes. Sure, a type system would be a huge boon to larger in-browser efforts, but maybe TypeScript will save us.
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Kunal is the Site Admin and Contributor of Silverlight-Zone. He is a Software Engineer, Microsoft Silverlight MVP, Code Project Mentor and a Code Project MVP. He is also an active Author in SilverlightShow.net and a speaker in various community events. He works on Microsoft Platform and very passionate about Silverlight technology. He started his career in 2007 and achieved various awards during his professional life.
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