vrijdag, mei 25, 2007
Flash gets competition
In the battle for RIA (Rich Internet Applications), the dominant Flash player (from Adobe) gets competition from all sides.
Flash is currently installed on 80-90% or even more of browsers, and is also a very popular learning format because of its excellent compression. It is a safe bet to develop for flash because it is the dominant technology by far. But in the future, we might have to consider competing technologies, just as we have to live with multiple browsers, platforms, etc.
- AJAX of course is a popular technology, and makes use of JavaScript on the client side
- Microsoft announced the beta version of Silverlight, a direct Flash competitor and a light version of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) technology in .NET 3.0. There is a cross-browser, cross-platform player for Silverlight and some demo's available.
- Sun just announced the JavaFX scripting language to create rich applications (also for mobile phones etc)
- And the creator of the Ruby on Rails open source framework has his own opinions on all of this as you can read in this InfoWorld article
Will all this mean progress for the web user or double work for site developers?
Flash is currently installed on 80-90% or even more of browsers, and is also a very popular learning format because of its excellent compression. It is a safe bet to develop for flash because it is the dominant technology by far. But in the future, we might have to consider competing technologies, just as we have to live with multiple browsers, platforms, etc.
- AJAX of course is a popular technology, and makes use of JavaScript on the client side
- Microsoft announced the beta version of Silverlight, a direct Flash competitor and a light version of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) technology in .NET 3.0. There is a cross-browser, cross-platform player for Silverlight and some demo's available.
- Sun just announced the JavaFX scripting language to create rich applications (also for mobile phones etc)
- And the creator of the Ruby on Rails open source framework has his own opinions on all of this as you can read in this InfoWorld article
Will all this mean progress for the web user or double work for site developers?
Labels: ajax, flash, silverlight
