Silverlight 2 vs AIR

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Silverlight looks a lot more interesting from a security prospective than
AIR since Silverlight applications run inside of a browser..

 

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February 25, 2008 9:57 AM PST


With Adobe AIR out, Microsoft readies Silverlight 2


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Adobe on Monday released the long-awaited
<http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9877238-7.html>  AIR download for running
Web applications off-line, but Microsoft is readying an update to its
Silverlight platform that it hopes will keep Web developers in its camp. 

Microsoft will release the first beta of Silverlight 2 "shortly," said Scott
Guthrie, a general manager in Microsoft's developer division in charge of
Web development, in his blog
<http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/22/first-look-at-silverlight
-2.aspx>  on Friday. Next week, the company is hosting its Mix08 Web
development and design conference in Las Vegas. 

Silverlight 2 is a significant
<http://www.news.com/More-than-meets-the-eye-in-Microsoft-plan/2100-1012_3-6
053893.html>  upgrade to the existing edition because it's designed to let
programmers write rich Internet applications for Windows and Macintosh
browsers using Microsoft's popular .Net tools. 

The area of rich Internet applications is fast becoming one of the most
hotly contested among infrastructure software providers. 

There a handful of emerging platforms that look to bring the features
associated with desktop applications, such as off-line access to data, to
the Web. 

In addition to Adobe AIR, there is Google
<http://www.news.com/Google-kicks-offline-Web-apps-into-gear/2100-7345_3-618
7596.html>  Gears for off-line access as well as JavaFX
<http://www.news.com/Sun-tries-again-with-consumer-flavored-Java/2100-1007_3
-6181922.html>  and the Mozilla
<http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9805103-7.html>  Foundation's Prism
project. 

Guthrie said that Silverlight 2 has a stripped-down version of the .Net
Framework that lets people use many different languages to write for the
Web. These applications can run in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Apple's
Safari browser. 

"Developers can write Silverlight applications using any .NET language
(including VB, C#, JavaScript, IronPython and IronRuby). We will ship Visual
Studio 2008 and Expression Studio tool support that enables great developer
/ designer workflow and integration when building Silverlight applications,"
he wrote. 

Microsoft hopes to exploit its strengths and developer tools as it battles
Adobe and others for developer attention. Developers can use standard Ajax
toolkits or Adobe's Flex, which is now open source, to write AIR
applications. 

Silverlight is now available on Windows or Mac browser but Microsoft said
that it intends to have versions for Linux desktops and mobile devices. 

 

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