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This article on the zombie of Silverlight had me flashing back to the end of the 2000s, before HTML5 was a thing, when I was really concerned that MS was about to succeed in quashing the web once and for all for dynamic content/single page app type network apps. Like C# is to Java, Silverlight was Java Applets (and Flash) done right. There was no real alternative available. With Silverlight only having first class support on Windows with close second class support on OSX it seemed clear that all other desktops would be locked out. The open source Moonlight project, based on Mono, was always painfully behind. As much as I hate JavaScript I'm glad that the community got HTML/CSS and JavaScript polished up to not match what you could do with Silverlight but exceed it. Anyway, the spirit of Silverlight has been picked up by the community thanks to technologies like WASM and Blazor. Interesting read but not something I'd look to jump to personally. #microsoft #silverlight #moonlight #JavaScript #blazor #xaml

Silverlight Just Won't Die: 'XAML for Blazor' Arrives -- Visual Studio Magazine

Userware is using vestiges of the long-gone and sorely missed Microsoft Silverlight web-dev platform to power its new 'XAML for Blazor' offering, which lets .NET developers use markup language within client-side Blazor applications.
Visual Studio Magazine
#Microsoft #JavaScript #Moonlight #blazor #xaml #silverlight
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Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD
Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD
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I had to run Windows under Parallels on my Mac for about five years to be able to use a website that required Silverlight, after the macOS support was dropped. The government agency in
Japan used Silverlight only for their website all the way until Microsoft killed support for even IE on Windows. Then they finally made or paid someone to write a modern website that uses HTML5.
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