Swami Charan's Blog » Silverlight 1.0 http://www.swamicharan.com/blog My personal blog... Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:02:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Flash or Silverlight? Which suits your needs the best? http://www.swamicharan.com/blog/flash/flash-or-silverlight-which-suits-your-needs-the-best/ http://www.swamicharan.com/blog/flash/flash-or-silverlight-which-suits-your-needs-the-best/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:46:23 +0000 Swami Charan http://www.swamicharan.com/blog/?p=452 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.

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