http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2007/08/the-exasperating-world-of-tech-journalists/ Ryan Stewart on the Flash Platform Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:39:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2007/08/the-exasperating-world-of-tech-journalists/comment-page-1/#comment-3461 Todd Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:45:00 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=977#comment-3461 I totally agree with you. I originally wrote a review on <a href="http://www.simplifiedchaos.com/2007/05/15/12/" rel="nofollow">Silverlight</a> saying I was very disapointed with it. You know why? Because all the articles I read about it compared it with AIR (Apollo at the time), and when I got down to coding with it, it turned out to be more comparable to Flash...except there aren't even any input controls (I'm sure they'll be some soon, though, and that there's going to be a large supply of 3rd party controls...which is something I'm hoping will happen with Flex/AIR). Silverlight is a browser based-runtime. Nothing more. And saying it has a subset of functionality of WPF is like selling someone a cardoor handle saying it is a subset of a car. I totally agree with you. I originally wrote a review on Silverlight saying I was very disapointed with it. You know why? Because all the articles I read about it compared it with AIR (Apollo at the time), and when I got down to coding with it, it turned out to be more comparable to Flash…except there aren’t even any input controls (I’m sure they’ll be some soon, though, and that there’s going to be a large supply of 3rd party controls…which is something I’m hoping will happen with Flex/AIR). Silverlight is a browser based-runtime. Nothing more. And saying it has a subset of functionality of WPF is like selling someone a cardoor handle saying it is a subset of a car.

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