Entries Tagged 'Apollo' ↓

WPF/Silverlight -VS- Flex/Air search trends

Here’s a look at the current Google Search trends for WPF, Silverlight, Flex and Air.

Silverlight Trends

It’s a little tough to make a direct comparison with the rather generic product names Adobe is using, but it does hint at the momentum that Silverlight (shown in blue) is seeing at the moment.

WPF, Flash, DHTML, Silverlight and Flex rendering speeds compared

WPF speed test

Alexey Gavrilov has put together a great comparison of the rendering speeds of WPF, Flash, DHTML, Silverlight and Flex. He also compares how the different browsers handle rendering. It’s not a large sample set, but the results are still very interesting.

You can take the tests for yourself at www.bubblemark.com/

Ted Patrick on Silverlight 1.0

Ted Patrick of onFlex.org posts an interesting perspective on the release of Silverlight 1.0 and it’s effect on Adobe and their roadmap to RIA.

Silverlight/WPF VS. Flash/Apollo

Dax Pandhi covers the similarites and differences between Silverlight/WPF and Flash/Apollo. It’s an old post but still an interesting read.

WPF, Apollo and the state of Rich Internet Applications

Hanselminutes has a nice podcast on WPF, Apollo and the state of Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s)

We discuss “Web 2.5″ as Silverlight (ne WPF/E) is announced. Seems that Rich Cross-Platform Runtimes quickly approach from both Microsoft and Adobe. What does this mean to the average developer? We also try to make up for some misinformation we spread in Show 46 on WPF/E, and while we do it, we probably speculate wildly and spread more.