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A comment on Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA for rich, real-time collaboration. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by andr on Monday January 12, 2009 @10:38AM (#430553)
It takes a few startups to jump in and push Silverlight into popularity. IMHO, it is a better and more open RIA technology than Flash, so I'm happy to see it used! (Although, you don't have to use it everywhere. The signup form didn't need it, for example).
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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by mattmaroon on Monday January 12, 2009 @11:21AM (#430612)
It only takes MS bundling it to make it popular on the client end.
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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by stormideas on Monday January 12, 2009 @10:42AM (#430562)
Aha, yes. I got a bit carried away there. Currently redeveloping in ASP.NET MVC as a more standard web form!
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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by halo on Monday January 12, 2009 @11:12AM (#430594)
>IMHO, it is a better and more open RIA technology than Flash

A lesser evil is still an evil.

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by andr on Monday January 12, 2009 @04:34PM (#431183)
What does that even mean?
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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by halo on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @10:19AM (#432097)
Silverlight being better than Flash doesn't logically conclude to making Silverlight a good idea and deserving of support. A lesser evil is still an evil.

I consider the fact that Flash is pretty terrible a feature, as at least is helps discourage people from only using it in places where it's absolutely essential. I firmly believe RIAs are a fundamentally bad idea and the quicker they are replaced with open standards the better.

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