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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 cosmo7 on Monday January 12, 2009 @11:52AM (#430683)
I've used Silverlight on Firefox (Vista, Windows 7) with no problems, not even having to restart the browser.

Silverlight is actually pretty good; it's a much easier experience for developers than Flash/Flex. You might hate Microsoft, but you shouldn't hate the tech.

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by chaostheory on Monday January 12, 2009 @01:02PM (#430815)
it's hard not to hate the tech when historically MS makes their stuff ignore standards and evolve into something for Windows only.

Adobe, while not perfect itself, has been committed to keeping Flash cross platform. This makes Flash harder to hate than Silverlight despite the high cost of developer tools

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