Alfred Ortega
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Alfred Ortega
asked on 07 Jul 2007, 02:29 AM
As silverlight becomes closer to being a reality will it become replace your ASP.Net and Prometheus controls for web dev? What does the telerik crystal ball say the future is....?
Keep up the great work,
Al
Keep up the great work,
Al
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Hi Al,
Silverlight is definitely a priority for us and we are concentrating a lot of efforts on researching how to best meet all customers' requirements in this new technology field. However, as of now customers are much more comfortable with ASP.NET AJAX and we get more requests for AJAX controls. Silverlight is currently picking up in Media applications and once Microsoft has an official release of Silverlight 1.0 (and beta for Silverlight 1.1) developers will get a more clear idea in what direction they want to take their applications. Within the next months (and probably years) the two technologies will evlove in parallel and only customer requests will tell us which one will gain more popularity (as of now ASP.NET AJAX has a much wider adoption while Silverlight is targeted primarily for Media applications)
It will be great if you tell us more about your Silverlight plans. How soon do you plan to adopt this new technology? When do you expect to have Silverlight projects in production? In what scenarios will you be looking for third party controls? What do you see as the most important controls/features that you will need?
Thank you for bringing this up -- we will be very happy to have a discussion on the topic as it is clearly important for the community. Please, share your feedback and suggestions -- we are listening.
Sincerely yours,
Ivo
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Silverlight is definitely a priority for us and we are concentrating a lot of efforts on researching how to best meet all customers' requirements in this new technology field. However, as of now customers are much more comfortable with ASP.NET AJAX and we get more requests for AJAX controls. Silverlight is currently picking up in Media applications and once Microsoft has an official release of Silverlight 1.0 (and beta for Silverlight 1.1) developers will get a more clear idea in what direction they want to take their applications. Within the next months (and probably years) the two technologies will evlove in parallel and only customer requests will tell us which one will gain more popularity (as of now ASP.NET AJAX has a much wider adoption while Silverlight is targeted primarily for Media applications)
It will be great if you tell us more about your Silverlight plans. How soon do you plan to adopt this new technology? When do you expect to have Silverlight projects in production? In what scenarios will you be looking for third party controls? What do you see as the most important controls/features that you will need?
Thank you for bringing this up -- we will be very happy to have a discussion on the topic as it is clearly important for the community. Please, share your feedback and suggestions -- we are listening.
Sincerely yours,
Ivo
the Telerik team
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Alfred Ortega
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answered on 10 Jul 2007, 03:18 PM
Ivo,
Thanks for the answer. We are not planning on using Silverlight anytime soon and want to continue to build Ajax driven sites. We having been using Telerik controls for a few years now and plan to continue doing so and want to do it with the assurance that they will continue to be enhanced and supported. Silverlight maybe the next big thing (or maybe it won't) but Ajax is here, it works well and fits into our security needs well. We don't really need off-line or wincontrol functionality for our apps so Silverlight has no appeal for us ... yet.
Thanks and keep up the great work,
Al
Thanks for the answer. We are not planning on using Silverlight anytime soon and want to continue to build Ajax driven sites. We having been using Telerik controls for a few years now and plan to continue doing so and want to do it with the assurance that they will continue to be enhanced and supported. Silverlight maybe the next big thing (or maybe it won't) but Ajax is here, it works well and fits into our security needs well. We don't really need off-line or wincontrol functionality for our apps so Silverlight has no appeal for us ... yet.
Thanks and keep up the great work,
Al
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answered on 11 Jul 2007, 03:06 PM
Silverlight from all I can see seems just a really bad attempt at ripping of Adobe Flash etc. No plans to implement as of yet, do not really see the point.
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answered on 11 Jul 2007, 10:07 PM
I also wondered about the Silverlight vs. Flash thing, so have been doing some reading on the subject, and have come to the conclusion that Silverlight is not simply a bad Flash rip-off.
I found a quick comparison table on a blog here: http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2007/04/19/rich-media-platform-comparison.aspx
I also found a comparison review, albeit biased towards Silverlight, that is interesting reading, here: http://weblogs.asp.net/jezell/archive/2007/05/03/silverlight-vs-flash-the-developer-story.aspx
There is also a link to an interesting sample silverlight site, that is well worth checking out, here: http://www.windowsvista.si/main.htm
When the initial home page loads, click on the "Work Time" icon for the full-screen demo -- I think that it's pretty impressive.
However, the biggest issue I have with Silverlight is Microsoft's "cross-platform" terminology... which really means Windows and OS/X. They are very non-committal about anything else, such as Linux. As far as I can see, HTML+AJAX (with Flash options) is still the only option if you need true X-Plaform/X-Browser support.
I found a quick comparison table on a blog here: http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2007/04/19/rich-media-platform-comparison.aspx
I also found a comparison review, albeit biased towards Silverlight, that is interesting reading, here: http://weblogs.asp.net/jezell/archive/2007/05/03/silverlight-vs-flash-the-developer-story.aspx
There is also a link to an interesting sample silverlight site, that is well worth checking out, here: http://www.windowsvista.si/main.htm
When the initial home page loads, click on the "Work Time" icon for the full-screen demo -- I think that it's pretty impressive.
However, the biggest issue I have with Silverlight is Microsoft's "cross-platform" terminology... which really means Windows and OS/X. They are very non-committal about anything else, such as Linux. As far as I can see, HTML+AJAX (with Flash options) is still the only option if you need true X-Plaform/X-Browser support.