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• 29 Jun 08
  

  Gary Edwards

  very important discussion on RiA and the standards implementation of HTML-CSS-DOM-JavaScript technologies. Excellent!

  webkit ria silverlight

  • Remember the crucial test for an RIA is will the app run offline and online on every platform its used on. Like Microsoft’s current support for HTML/CSS/DOM standards, Redmond is the most seriously deficient of RIA providers as well. Beginning to sound like a broken record ? Well lets see exactly what Redmond is promoting.

     

    What Developers Should be Demanding of Redmond

     

    Steve Apiki has written a piece on Nine Silverlight 2 Features Not to Be Missed. Here is what Web 2.0 developers should be demanding of Microsoft before they even consider Silverlight

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  Gary Edwards on 2008-06-30
  Microsoft has long sought to take control of the Web formats, protocols and itnerfaces implemented by their software systems, developer frameworks and services. The Silverlight-XAML combination is a dramatic break for the past routine of implementing corrupt extensions of W3C standards. The WPF set of technologies represents a clear alternative to the Web formats, protocos and interfaces the rest of the Web uses. I would also say that Microsoft's limited support of DOM, JavaScript and CSS in IE8 will act to "limit" the complexitiy of documents non Microsoft servers work with. This carves out a "complexity" niche for Microsoft systems. For instance, consider the complexity of MSOffice documents. IE8 will be able to fully display an interactive-collaborative computing interface for MSOffice-OOXML docuemnts converted to XAML. IE8 will not support a CSS-DOM-JavaScript representation of these same documents. The proprietary Silverlight-XAML docuemnt model will break the Web because of the integration with 95% of the world's business desktops.
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  Gary Edwards on 2008-06-30
  WebClient?
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  Gary Edwards on 2008-06-30
  Nine Silverlight Features that will Break the Web:
  1. HTML DOM Integration
  2. JSON Serialization
  3. Styles and Templates
  4. Local Storage
  5. Databinding
  6. Generics
  7. ItemsControls
  8. Layout Management
  9. WebClient

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