Oct/090
Flash or Silverlight? Which suits your needs the best?
Adobe Flash as you all know is in use for years now for designing any web applicaitons or content. With Silverlight1.0 released, there is a debate started in web developers on whether to choose Flash or Silverlight.
Even after release Silverlight is facing a difficulty in capturing the market because of the coverage of Flash present already. Still we cannot deny that there are some features in Silverlight like search engine optimization, which designers and developers wanted to see in Flash for so long.
Actually speaking, which technology to use mostly depends on your requirements, on what capabilities you need to develop your application etc.
Smashing Magazine has posted an article discussing the technical differences between Flash and Silverlight.
The articles concludes as:
| Features | Flash | Silverlight |
|---|---|---|
| Animation | better | |
| File Size | better | |
| Scripting | better | |
| Video/Audio | better | |
| Sound Processing | better | |
| Accessibility | better | |
| Platform Compatibility | better | |
| Text Representation/SEO | better | |
| Supported Image Formats | better | |
| Socket Programming | better | |
| Webcam Support | better | |
| Deployment | better | |
| Windows Application | better | |
| Media Streaming | better |
Check out this article and use appropriate technology which suits your needs and requirements.