However, Silverlight has managed to keep up by including certain features that designers and developers have always wanted to see in Flash, Silverlight faces difficulties in capturing the market because of the maturity of Flash. With the release of Silverlight 1.0 and its subsequent versions, a debate started among designers and developers regarding choosing between Flash and Silverlight. But Silverlight offers “better video quality than Flash,” while the Expression tools will be “cheaper, faster and better” than Adobe’s offerings, he claimed.Today everyone who uses Internet is familiar with these two terminologies, thanks to the recent evolution in web development.īoth of the tools produce spectacular affects and give a new life to the world of web development.
Microsoft has previously positioned Silverlight as able to match Adobe Flash in more traditional rich media areas, but a recent statement from Forest Key, a director of product management at Microsoft’s server and tools division whose bona fides include a senior management stint at Flash developer Macromedia, suggested that Silverlight is superior on the video front.įlash has “some video capabilities, and some success in that market,” Key said. Preview releases are available for download now. Expression - Windows-only - has been positioned as an alternative to Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 software, and is expected to be released in June.
The company has developed a companion toolset called Expression to help develop Silverlight content.
Already Microsoft has signed up some major players to distribute Silverlight content, including Akamai Technologies, Brightcove, Eyeblaster, Major League Baseball and Netflix.
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