terça-feira, 24 de novembro de 2009

Lack of cross-platform support in Silverlight 4 explained

URL: http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/AyiVV8jjAvY/lack-of-cross-platform-support-in-silverlight-4-explained.ars


As with any new release, in Silverlight 4, Microsoft has made some changes that developers like and others do not. There are too many to list of the former, and just a handful of the latter, but one of them is quite serious: cross-platform support has become less of a priority, as The Register reports. For example, the HTML control in Silverlight 4 uses components from Internet Explorer on Windows and from Safari on the Mac. How bad can that be? Well, considering the same content is likely to render differently between the two browsers, this slightly defeats the purpose of using Silverlight to write one application that works on both platforms. That's the lesser evil, though.

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