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Two more Reasons : Why Flex wins over Silverlight

Posted on | June 26, 2007 |

11. Flex runs on Flash Player which can be installed on any OS while for Silverlight you should have Windows XP with latest Ser vice Pack or Vista.

12. Flex apps can be written on editor while we need Microsoft Expression for SilverLight development.

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6 Responses to “Two more Reasons : Why Flex wins over Silverlight”

  1. reader
    June 26th, 2007 @ 12:54 pm

    ok this list is pretty bogus and uninformed.

    12) you can write silverlight w/ a text editor. http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2007/06/05/how-to-create-silverlight-applications-with-notepad.aspx

    11 ) umm…. there is a player for xp/vista/os x … no player for linux yet, but the mono crew has been hard at work on moonlight for linux

    10) ok that sounds about right

    9) agreed… hopefully ms will open up wpf on the desktop.. yah not for now
    8) agreed… but those same large companies also have alot of .net developers… so might be a good ave for them.

    7) although very young there are fireworks/photoshop/illustrator to xaml exports… in addition the ms designer and blend tools

    6)umm… yah

    5) obviously when silverlight goes prime time .netwill have hook ins, just like flex has for cf

    4) this is the kicker, very true

    3) any this is different than silverlight in what way?

    2) big win for flex currently

    1) and biggest winner for flex…

    I guess to sum it up… know your facts… and dont dooms day it… silverlight is good for flex and flex is good for silverlight…

  2. Karl Johnson
    June 26th, 2007 @ 1:14 pm

    Both of these points are 100% incorrect. Where are you doing your research?

  3. Tom Chiverton
    June 26th, 2007 @ 2:51 pm

    *Actually* Silverlight runs everywhere Mono does (i.e. Linux, Mac) via the Moonlight project…
    Doesn’t mean it’s any good, of course, as it’s about as mature as a small child compared to the decades we’ve had Flash and still tied to the big bad wolf of Microsoft.

  4. JulesLt
    June 26th, 2007 @ 2:56 pm

    I’ve got Silverlight installed on both my Macs (PPC and Intel). So Flash is only one OS ahead (Linux) as Flex needs Flash 9 and that’s not available outside of the big 3.

  5. John Dowdell
    June 26th, 2007 @ 3:13 pm

    Actually, Microsoft provides a browser plugin for Vista, updated XP, and for Mac OS, and they are providing some level of support for the separate Novell/Mono clone on Linux.
    http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/system-requirements-mac.aspx
    http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/system-requirements-win.aspx

    You could conceivably write XAML in a text editor. The markup is a little lower-level and more verbose than MXML, though.

    jd/adobe

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