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Re: Moonlight on Android

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Post by DjDarkman » Sat, Apr 16, 2011, 6:12 AM UTC

bad_user wrote: post #4

DjDarkman wrote: post #3

I fail to see the point to this, Silverlight was deprecated by Microsoft in favor of HTML5, end of story.

So apps on Windows Phone 7 are going to be built with HTML5?

So apps for WP7 are going to be built with Moonlight?

Re: Moonlight on Android

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Post by DjDarkman » Sat, Apr 16, 2011, 6:14 AM UTC

jstedfast wrote: post #5

DjDarkman wrote: post #3

I fail to see the point to this, Silverlight was deprecated by Microsoft in favor of HTML5, end of story.

Microsoft announced Silverlight 5 beta at Mix11, so not as dead as you'd like to think it seems. Silverlight is still also very heavily used for intranet apps (which is where http://www.telerik.com/ makes their money on Silverlight controls)

I didn't say dead, I said deprecated.

Re: Moonlight on Android

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Post by DjDarkman » Sat, Apr 16, 2011, 6:18 AM UTC

gautaml wrote: post #6

DjDarkman wrote: post #3

I fail to see the point to this, Silverlight was deprecated by Microsoft in favor of HTML5, end of story.

HTML5: Polluting the mind of the commoner, making them believe it's the hottest shit since slice bread and that everything else is inferior.

Silverlight: Polluting the mind of the commoner, making them believe it's the hottest shit since slice bread and that everything else is inferior. Then realizing that this cross-microsoft-platform wonder is just a bad flash imitation, then deprecating it saying that HTML5 is better.

Re: Moonlight on Android

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Post by bad_user » Sat, Apr 16, 2011, 9:19 AM UTC

contextfree wrote: post #19

bad_user wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So apps on Windows Phone 7 are going to be built with HTML5?

Why not? IE9 mobile even has new default styling to make websites better match the WP aesthetic.

I tried doing it for the iPhone (html/javascript, showed in a WebView) -- the experience was horrible for an interface that featured only a couple of text inputs and 2 buttons. And on Android it was even worse.

Browsers for mobiles (WebKit mostly) are very buggy and even have extra restrictions that desktop browsers do not. I doubt they did a better job with the engine on WP7.