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Re:HTML5-based Windows 8 enrages .Net devs, alienates Linux ... by runjake on Monday June 06, 2011 @12:11PM (#2625197)
Wasn't Silverlight $future_version going to be HTML5/JS/CSS based? It seems to me that means Windows 8 apps would be Silverlight $future_version-based.

I'm lucky enough to be within earshot of a number of world-notable .NET/Silverlight developers and they're far from enraged, in fact quite the opposite, they're cautiously optimistic.

This is probably a good thing, really. Let's not scathe Microsoft for moving towards openness.

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Re:HTML5-based Windows 8 enrages .Net devs, alienates Linux ... by zemoo on Monday June 06, 2011 @12:30PM (#2625292)
Interestingly enough, it wasn't $future_version, but version 1.0, that didn't even support .NET and was scriptable only through JS. Silverlight is still scriptable through JS to this day. Given that Silverlight already supports a hybrid model I can image we could expect that to continue, with HTML as a possible alternative UI langauge to XAML.
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