Timeline for Is Silverlight suitable for an enterprise class web-based product UI?
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| Dec 9, 2011 at 18:55 | comment | added | Tushax | IMHO JS is a niche' skillset which over time could get very difficult to retain and maintain. Agree on the part that we would require plugins for interfacing with external hardware. | |
| Dec 9, 2011 at 14:30 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Dec 9, 2011 at 11:34 | comment | added | Yuck | How would you get a "pure" solution like this without plugins to work with external hardware? | |
| Dec 9, 2011 at 11:28 | comment | added | Matteo Mosca | As you say, it works on "some". Html5 + JS is far more compatible. I'm not a huge fan of JS but it he needs dynamic stuff client side, it's either that or a plugin, and plugins give worse compatibility. | |
| Dec 9, 2011 at 11:26 | comment | added | Yuck | SilverLight does work on some mobile devices. Also, JavaScript can be pretty overwhelming depending upon the client executing it. It's unreasonable to think that HTML and JS will always be faster. | |
| Dec 9, 2011 at 11:23 | history | answered | Matteo Mosca | CC BY-SA 3.0 |