Mozilla takes on MS Silverlight and Adobe AIR

[lywyre]

The program is called Prism and is intended to address the problem thus described by Mozilla:

“Personal computing is currently in a state of transition. While traditionally users have interacted mostly with desktop applications, more and more of them are using web applications. But the latter often fit awkwardly into the document-centric interface of web browsers.”

Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...ilverlight-air
Edit:
MS Silverlight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverlight
Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_AIR

[naveen_reloaded]

wht is silverlight anyway...

i downloaded...

i dont know wht it did....

[sachin_kothari]

^^It is somewhat similar to flash, i suppose.
Can some one throw some more light on it.

[ratedrsuperstar]

also wwe.com supports it but it runs on flash still

[ax3]

micro wants 2 control media on net 2 ..........

hope v dont endup downloading both flash & silverlight 4 all our browsers ....

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

Originally Posted by sachin_kothari

^^It is somewhat similar to flash, i suppose.
Can some one throw some more light on it.

It's like flash but with much more features and very higher performance than Flash.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sil.../bb187401.aspx

[ray|raven]

Originally Posted by Zeeshan Quireshi

It's like flash but with much more features and very higher performance than Flash.

Supposedly.Nothing's proven just yet AFAIK.

Regards,
ray

[Indyan]

Originally Posted by rayraven

Supposedly.Nothing's proven just yet AFAIK.

Regards,
ray

Well Silverlight surely has some substance as it as recieved a lot of acclaim from developers.

[QwertyManiac]

^^
Most stuff don't go anywhere even after things like that happen.

[ray|raven]

Originally Posted by Indyan

Well Silverlight surely has some substance as it as recieved a lot of acclaim from developers.

One of the reasons for that is because you can use any .NET programming language to develop web-apps in SilverLight.
But its still not platform independent.
I Know Mono Exists,But it isnt anywhere close to reproducing a .NET clone.

Regards,
ray