Final Silverlight 2.0 for Windows and Mac now looking like October

Silverlight quite easy to use...: I have tried out and bought the Expression Suite to try out Silverlight for Vista desktop and web applications. I will probably buy the 2.0 version of Expression suite to use the Silverlight 2.0 stuff.

Adobe has a strangle hold on old school for print media but Microsoft is about to serve them their lunch on the web. Adobe web tools suck and are almost useless outside certain ancient web practices. Silverlight makes it possible to do full streaming media along with three dimensional effects and total control over vector graphics which are simply better for doing web graphics.

Most web graphics images are not scalable but vector graphics images are scalable and quite easy to animate as well. In the old days of web development you have to make assumptions about the average user who has horrible equipment and this pretty much destroys all the pixel by pixel imagery since in order to get that image on a users machine you have to send it over a phone modem. The reason the bit graphics took off was because it could do a tiny bit of colors that was the norm for low end users. Vector graphics are too large for modem users but today, over 80% of computer usres are on some kind of broad band and it is time to take advantage of vector graphics and dump pixel by pixel graphics instead.; Posted by: progon Posted on: 09/29/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Vectoring the vector TedKraan | 09/29/08

Meanwhile ... LBiege | 09/29/08

Hmmm.. TedKraan | 09/30/08

Yup dhorn92 | 09/30/08

Is that so? LBiege | 09/29/08

Security Model? logic_earth | 10/01/08

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