“Silverlight is not standardised and it is not recommended by the W3C, either.”Enter the binary Web again. Silverlight is not standardised and it is not recommended by the W3C, either. It's a case against W3C in the sense that it renders the W3C's work obsolete. Microsoft has total control over Silverlight. Microsoft can (and will) change it any time it wishes to suit other business goals such as O/S competition, application integration (e.g. Microsoft's Web design tools), Web services (Live), advertising (MSN), etc. That, and primarily that, is why Flash can be trusted more than Silverlight. Do not allow people to draw a comparison between Flash and Silverlight because Adobe is neither interested in discriminating against operating systems, nor has it got a history that demonstrates this.
Judge Jackson once recommended separating the company into an operating system unit which is wholly independent from another that handles applications. Neelie Kroes pondered spilling the company last year as well. Silverlight is another fine reminder of the use of applications (and the World Wide Web) to mutually support an operating system and other frameworks that serve as common carriers.
The only thing more worrying than Silverlight is people's lack of awareness of Silverlight's danger to the Web, to GNU/Linux users, to search engines that compete against Microsoft, to digital preservation and many other things. ⬆
Comments
Silverfish
2008-01-24 06:37:47
The 'wolverine' and 'cloud of silverfish' is a reference lifted from a Bill Hicks skit. Check YouTube and watch his stuff, his pro-freedom talks and anti-corporate rants are prophetic.
Tim B.
2008-01-25 06:40:56
Shockwave says hi.
Spaulding Smails
2008-01-25 08:16:58
martin
2008-01-25 10:14:10
Guy Thomas
2008-03-05 12:50:08
CoolGuy
2008-03-05 17:31:53
Sun wants to remove J from JVM. Can you realize the implication for this.
They are going directly against .NET - head on !!
Bring it on !!
butter
2008-07-12 08:37:56
Thomas Hansen
2008-12-04 12:07:03