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NewsWhy HTML5 is in trouble on the mobile front Pin
Karthik J, Coimbatore5-Sep-12 1:56
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Clifford Nelson5-Sep-12 8:35
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db7uk5-Sep-12 9:25
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Clifford Nelson5-Sep-12 9:42
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db7uk5-Sep-12 9:45
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Clifford Nelson5-Sep-12 9:52
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db7uk5-Sep-12 9:54
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Judah Gabriel Himango5-Sep-12 12:58
sponsorJudah Gabriel Himango5-Sep-12 12:58 
Silverlight is a great developer platform. It's a great framework (.NET + Linq is unbeatable.) And it's got a great, well-designed language in C#. You can build great things with it. I did.

But it doesn't matter, Silverlight is dying. (Or more precisely, it will lie stagnant until its end of life.) It's dying because it doesn't run on mobile, and doesn't run on non-MS platforms. (Barring perhaps SL on MacOS.)

I've come to realize that in the past few years, that what matters more than greatness is reach. Even though Silverlight + C# is a better combination than HTML5 + JavaScript, it doesn't matter; HTML + JS is the lowest common denominator, giving it broader reach.

Your daughter has a mobile phone. That guy out in the African bush has a mobile phone. Every one of us in the western world carries one around in our pockets. Having software run on that is important, and Silverlight doesn't, and that's why it's dying.


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Judah Himango


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Dan Neely6-Sep-12 2:35
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Clifford Nelson6-Sep-12 11:59
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Danny Martin5-Sep-12 23:01
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