{"id":49,"date":"2008-06-03T09:41:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T09:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2008-06-03T09:41:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T09:41:36","slug":"silverlight-do-i-know-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/silverlight-do-i-know-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverlight, do I know you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.mrinalwadhwa.com\/2008\/05\/21\/adobe-air-versus-microsoft-silverlight\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/weblog.mrinalwadhwa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/air-vs-silverlight.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"195\" alt=\"AIR != Silverlight\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.mrinalwadhwa.com\/2008\/05\/21\/adobe-air-versus-microsoft-silverlight\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mrinal Wadhwa about AIR and Silverlight\" alt=\"Mrinal Wadhwa about AIR and Silverlight\">Mrinal Wadhwa<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMicrosoft Silverlight is a browser plugin and is sort of similar to Adobe\u2019s Flash Player and Flex Framework taken together<\/p>\n<p>Adobe AIR is cross platform desktop runtime that allows developers to build desktop applications using web technologies, it has no real equivalent in the Microsoft world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Peter Elst also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterelst.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/adobe-air-versus-microsoft-silverlight\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Peter Elst - Silverlight != Air\" alt=\"Peter Elst - Silverlight != Air\">finds it important to differentiate<\/a>..<\/p>\n<p>So many people ask me &#8211; &#8220;How is Silverlight?&#8221; or &#8220;Is Silverlight a real threat to Flash?&#8221;.. well, I never even tried Silverlight. (I did install the plugin, but simply never got to a website that uses Silverlight..)<br \/>\nSo the only answer I can give is: when aiming at the web industry (us developers), such a difference in user\/client perception must result in different adoption trends, evident: I did not try.. but the logo looks kinda cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrinal Wadhwa: Microsoft Silverlight is a browser plugin and is sort of similar to Adobe\u2019s Flash Player and Flex Framework taken together Adobe AIR is cross platform desktop runtime that allows developers to build desktop applications using web technologies, it has no real equivalent in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}