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Post March 31st, 2008, 7:21 am

Anyone notice you now have to enable Silverlight on MSN.com in order to view the multimedia content. Don't you love how Microsoft doesn't leave much to chance.
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Post March 31st, 2008, 7:21 am

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Post March 31st, 2008, 7:56 am

lol ... is quite funny ... I've noticed that on quite a few MS sites lately ...
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Post March 31st, 2008, 3:16 pm

well i guess MS has to get people to start using silverlight some how. I'm not hearing many plans to drop Flash (at least not in the interactive advertising community)
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Post March 31st, 2008, 3:40 pm

Overall (not knowing anything about the application), what I'm seeing on Microsoft's sites really doesn't look all that bad.
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Post March 31st, 2008, 6:02 pm

Silverlight is basically the Microsoft alternative to Adobe Flex. As a Flex developer I obviously have a large bias for it, so I won't get into things here. ;)
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Post April 1st, 2008, 9:43 am

I've never heard of either of those - I'm not sure how I missed them.
After watching the preview for Flex, it looks pretty [powerful] neat.
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Post April 1st, 2008, 2:34 pm

I don't have anything on hand that I can share. Most of the work I've done has been for internal administrative applications for my university.

However, I'm currently working on a project in Flex 3 for a usability course I'm taking, and I'd be more than happy to share it once we've completed it.

If you'd like to see some demos, there are a few decent ones available on Adobe's website, although I've done some pretty unique things that you won't see there ;)

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/?tab:samples=1
http://flex.org/showcase/

Also, Flex has nice integration with ColdFusion via RemoteObjects, and from reading the Flex 3 release notes, it looks like they've added support for PHP integration in Flex 3. Woot!
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Post April 1st, 2008, 3:10 pm

Yeah I was referring to the demo's in my earlier post :)
I may have to look into it once I get some free time.

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