plug
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seems to be a lot of buzz about "rich internet applications" lately. future of the web and all that. I started getting curious about all of this stuff recently. I've been looking at Adobe Flex briefly in the last few days; I've hardly even messed around with it but it seems pretty deadly, especially the xml based (mxml) layout markup and new object oriented actionscript. seems to be a lot of database support as well. powerful stuff!
Silverlight looks like a serious attempt to muscle in on adobe's territory. xml based (xaml) layout, and I think you code in javascript, or whatever .NET language you like: c#, vb etc. on the face of it, it seems pretty cool. I downloaded the sdk and tooled around a little bit; I drew some coloured squares and circles in other words. don't know much about it other than that. other than it's microsoft and it's probably evil.
and it's all open source. although adobe and microsoft give you the option to buy expensive IDEs for each of course
I know little to none about AJAX. xhtml, css and javascript? or is there a lot more to it?
so what y'all think? anyone been tooling around with any of this stuff or have any opinions/thoughts?
Silverlight looks like a serious attempt to muscle in on adobe's territory. xml based (xaml) layout, and I think you code in javascript, or whatever .NET language you like: c#, vb etc. on the face of it, it seems pretty cool. I downloaded the sdk and tooled around a little bit; I drew some coloured squares and circles in other words. don't know much about it other than that. other than it's microsoft and it's probably evil.
and it's all open source. although adobe and microsoft give you the option to buy expensive IDEs for each of course
I know little to none about AJAX. xhtml, css and javascript? or is there a lot more to it?
so what y'all think? anyone been tooling around with any of this stuff or have any opinions/thoughts?