Comments on: A MIXed Bag http://shebanator.com/2007/04/30/a-mixed-bag/ Thoughts on Dynamic Languages, Web Apps, and more Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:42:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ashebanow http://shebanator.com/2007/04/30/a-mixed-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-267 ashebanow Tue, 08 May 2007 13:37:55 +0000 http://shebanation.com/2007/04/30/a-mixed-bag/#comment-267 @Rosyna: I agree 100%. See my latest post for <a href="http://shebanation.com/2007/05/07/silverlight-11-no-love-for-ppc-macs/" rel="nofollow">more news.</a> @Rosyna: I agree 100%. See my latest post for more news.

]]> By: Rosyna http://shebanator.com/2007/04/30/a-mixed-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-265 Rosyna Tue, 08 May 2007 13:12:53 +0000 http://shebanation.com/2007/04/30/a-mixed-bag/#comment-265 Well, if they have no intention of supporting PPC Macs, then it's clear their "cross platform commitment" is entirely artificial and purely a matter of convenience for Microsoft. Silverlight will continue to be considered a Windows-only technology. I would never use it on a Website I wanted to target Mac users with. It's funny, when Silverlight 1.1 alpha was originally released, I mentioned the problems on http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2007/05/01/mix07-day-1-chats-microsoft-quotes-and-silverlight.aspx#comments and I was told to "wait and chill out". Well, if they have no intention of supporting PPC Macs, then it’s clear their “cross platform commitment” is entirely artificial and purely a matter of convenience for Microsoft.

Silverlight will continue to be considered a Windows-only technology. I would never use it on a Website I wanted to target Mac users with.

It’s funny, when Silverlight 1.1 alpha was originally released, I mentioned the problems on http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2007/05/01/mix07-day-1-chats-microsoft-quotes-and-silverlight.aspx#comments and I was told to “wait and chill out”.

]]> By: ashebanow http://shebanator.com/2007/04/30/a-mixed-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-257 ashebanow Thu, 03 May 2007 19:50:55 +0000 http://shebanation.com/2007/04/30/a-mixed-bag/#comment-257 Here's a good article about the fact that <a href="http://www.lazycoder.com/weblog/index.php/archives/2007/05/01/silverlight-11-for-os-x-is-intel-only/" rel="nofollow">Silverlight 1.1 doesn't support PowerPC</a> Here’s a good article about the fact that Silverlight 1.1 doesn’t support PowerPC

]]> By: ashebanow http://shebanator.com/2007/04/30/a-mixed-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-254 ashebanow Tue, 01 May 2007 21:52:45 +0000 http://shebanation.com/2007/04/30/a-mixed-bag/#comment-254 Good point. I had missed that when I downloaded it. Kind of funny that the installed size of the Flash Player is 1/3 that of Silverlight AND its a universal binary. I did a little digging and discovere that the Silverlight CLR implementation includes compilers for JScript, IronPython, and VB.net, but NOT for C#. Kinda surprising. Good point. I had missed that when I downloaded it. Kind of funny that the installed size of the Flash Player is 1/3 that of Silverlight AND its a universal binary. I did a little digging and discovere that the Silverlight CLR implementation includes compilers for JScript, IronPython, and VB.net, but NOT for C#. Kinda surprising.

]]> By: Rosyna http://shebanator.com/2007/04/30/a-mixed-bag/comment-page-1/#comment-253 Rosyna Tue, 01 May 2007 17:26:23 +0000 http://shebanation.com/2007/04/30/a-mixed-bag/#comment-253 It's funny, they're labeling it as cross platform, but they've already dropped support for PPC Macs on the 1.1 alpha. Will web developers use a "rich media experience" app that doesn't support over half of a platform the wish to target? It's just weird how much they've been trumpeting cross platformness but on the day the renamed binaries are finally available, they drop a platform. It’s funny, they’re labeling it as cross platform, but they’ve already dropped support for PPC Macs on the 1.1 alpha.

Will web developers use a “rich media experience” app that doesn’t support over half of a platform the wish to target?

It’s just weird how much they’ve been trumpeting cross platformness but on the day the renamed binaries are finally available, they drop a platform.

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