Poll: Do you will replace Flash with Silverlight? [modified]

[Erik Funkenbusch]

Maybe. I've been considering it. Silverlight has a lot of potential. I guess we'll see how well Microsoft comes through on that. Silverlight currently has a number of things going against it: * Expression (the only current designer) only works on Windows. Most designers user Macs, or at least a large percentage do. This makes it hard to find artists and scripters. This will change. I hope MS will come out with Mac versions of Expression. Mono is also working on a designer for Moonlight (the Linux version of Silverlight). * Lack of experienced designers. * Lack of deployed clients * Large download for client compared to FlashPlayer (requires a subset of .NET runtime). On the other hand, there's a lot of advantages to Silverlight too. * XAML based, which makes it easier to auto-generate interface code * .NET based library, which means you can reflect or decompile it to see what's going on ;) * easier to integrate into .NET apps * integration with Visual Studio My answer is "I'm going to wait and see, but I'll play around with it in the meantime."

-- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?