Comments on: Silverlight On Nokia Phones, Offline Announcement Perhaps Tomorrow

By: Microsoft Adopts Flash Lite For Windows Mobile As a Stopgap Measure

Microsoft Adopts Flash Lite For Windows Mobile As a Stopgap Measure — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:59:17 +0000

[...] But for Microsoft, this is just a stopgap measure until it can gain more traction for Silverlight, its Flash-competitor. The mobile version of Sliverlight 2.0 does not ship until the second quarter. Making WinMo more capable won’t detract from Silverlight’s appeal. There is a desperate need to get a full Flash-like experience on a mobile device. Flash itself is supposedly too slow on mobile phones. That leaves an opening for Microsoft to win over converts to Silverlight by bringing video, animation, and other rich-media experiences to mobile. Nokia is already on board. [...]

By: Episode 23 3-05-08 - Geekazine.com

Episode 23 3-05-08 - Geekazine.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:26:07 +0000

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By: Microsoft adopte FlashLite pour Windows Mobile, en attendant Silverlight

Microsoft adopte FlashLite pour Windows Mobile, en attendant Silverlight — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:44:49 +0000

[...] Pour Microsoft c’est une étape intermédiaire en attendant de pouvoir lancer la version mobile de Silverlight prévue pour la deuxième moitie de l’année. Améliorer Windows Mobile était nécessaire et une vraie expérience Flash est impérative; FlashLite est supposé etre trop lent sur les téléphones portables. Silverlight sera une opportunité pour Microsoft afin de proposer une expérience mutiltimedia riche avec de la vidéo ou de l’animation. Nokia est deja partant. [...]

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By: WIRELESS « Daily Marauder

WIRELESS « Daily Marauder — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:39:50 +0000

[...] Rumor has it that we may well see an offline Silverlight announcement at Microsoft Mix this week. (http://www.tech...-perhaps-tomorr... [...]

By: pflodo

pflodo — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:24:17 +0000

This will be decided like everything else on the web. When you need Silverlight to watch porn on the web, it has won…and not before, no matter how many downloads Microsoft will claim.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ノキア携帯がSilverlight対応に～明日Mix ‘08で発表か

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ノキア携帯がSilverlight対応に～明日Mix ‘08で発表か — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:52:09 +0000

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By: advertboy

advertboy — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:43:56 +0000

This is amazing news. I have no idea how this is going to be achieved technically BUT am loving the idea of silverlight mobile apps.

Well done MS!

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:32:20 +0000

I love Silverlight.

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:42:31 +0000

Resubmitting this 11:26am comment, just in case it’s lost lost lost in the moderation queue:

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“A close friend of mine at Adobe tells me they are also working on some sort of pic/vid support for the Nokia S60.”

Actually, these devices have been shipping with Adobe Flash Lite for awhile now:
http://www.adob...s/handsets.html
http://www.adob...ices/nokia.html

jd/adobe

By: Steele

Steele — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:31:18 +0000

We need Silverlight on the iPhone/iPod Touch.

Without it, Flash will continue to dominate the mobile market.

By: Paged mobile

Paged mobile — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:25:41 +0000

I guess Adobe didn’t make a really good job spreading Flash for mobile devices. Get a life, Flash!

Besides, it is always amazing to see how the giant machine of Microsoft can proceed with full of suprises.

Imre

By: Frank Daley

Frank Daley — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:50:30 +0000

Nokia is making a huge strategic mistake.

Silverlight is just another part of Microsoft’s embrace, extend and extinguish strategy.

Once Microsoft has established Silverlight as a must-have application, non-Windows platforms will be turned into second-rate citizens.

Dumb Nokia .. a very dumb move.

By: A.T.

A.T. — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:12:07 +0000

it would be brilliant experience on Nokia Tablets, to get Microsoft product fitting into current marshmallow of licenses… last time it was Opera browser engine which took enormous legal & technical efforts to push inside, but this time it is elephant of elephants to come into GPL glass shop

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:05:36 +0000

I, for one, like where Microsoft is going with this…

Silverlight 2 will work on the 3 most popular browsers (IE, Mozilla & Safari) and on 3 platforms (Windows, Linux & Safari) … and now Nokia is getting Silverlight support too which proves how serious MS is to gain market share. They could have chosen to exclude non-MS platforms but they didn’t…

And anway, purely from a technological viewpoint, silverlight is superior to flash in many ways. Adobe is going to have a hard time…

By: Steve Elbows

Steve Elbows — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:01:58 +0000

Its clear there is plenty of hate towards Silverlight, mostly because its from Microsoft. Its a good example of how toxic their brand is in some quarters.

Even without whatever surprises (or no-longer surprises) are in store regarding Silverlight this week, Silverlight 2 is where the battle really begins. If enough developers are attracted to it and make compelling things, it will get some traction. Developers currently happy with Flash, Flex, AJAX or whatever else, may have no reason to switch, but I guess in theory there are people with .net skills out there who may like to make web apps of one sort or another. Id certainly say we are in dire need of some richer user interfaces that have benefit to users, to justify using either Flash or Silverlight, as AJAX has most of the basic functionality & aesthetics covered these days?

Both Microsoft and Adobe have got a little better at giving some development tools away for free, but the cost of their best tools certainly doesnt help, I hope the battle between them causes some movement in this area.

And no matter what MIX brings, I guess Apple plan to trump Microsofts announcements with plenty of iphone SDK hype?

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:26:58 +0000

“A close friend of mine at Adobe tells me they are also working on some sort of pic/vid support for the Nokia S60.”

Actually, these devices have been shipping with Adobe Flash Lite for awhile now:
http://www.adob...s/handsets.html
http://www.adob...ices/nokia.html

jd/adobe

By: James

James — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:47:11 +0000

Thats great news, cant wait to see them demo this

@AW
Silverlight is much faster for a few reasons, first of all flash is interpreted line by line like php/javascript/perl while silverlight is compiled to x86 code, second of all silverlight is based on the a subset of the .net framework (you dont need to install it) which is pretty fast and solid.

By: AW

AW — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:36:25 +0000

One thing I’ve noticed about Silverlight-based webapps / “toys” / wtf-ever you call them is that they’re pretty performant in comparison to Flash. They’re very responsive, even when they dominate a good portion of page real estate.

I’m wondering if it’s because Silverlight developers are a little more careful, the Silverlight framework allows developers to be more performant with their code, or if the framework is just a little more well designed.

By: Everett

Everett — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:34:45 +0000

A close friend of mine at Adobe tells me they are also working on some sort of pic/vid support for the Nokia S60. I believe it will be working in conjunction with Silverlight.

By: Mailania

Mailania — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:29:16 +0000

I would be very interested to hear an announcement from microsoft this week about on offline silverlight

By: John

John — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:27:28 +0000

I hope this silverlight s*it never succeeds, microsoft’s attitude towards the IT world is so annoying