Technology depreciates and it is the bitter truth of the industry. We have to accept it if we want to move forward. When Silver Light was launched in the industry in 2007, it had a lot of hope associated with it from the industry. It was expected to dominate the industry in future, but every wish does not fulfil and so the case for Microsoft Silver light. It was aimed to compete with Adobe Flash; but when the Adobe Flash itself going away from the industry, we can expect the very similar situation for Silverlight. Anyway, within 5 years, Microsoft had announced 5 updates through the version 1 to version 5. But, now it has clearly conveyed that No future updates will be entertained but, still the users can get support up to 2021. Let us discuss few major points for the unsuccessful of Microsoft Siler Light.
Industry denies accepting plugins in the browser: Just like Flash, SilverLight is yet another multimedia player to play different formats of graphics, video (including H.264), audio etc. There was a time when these plugins were on boom; but, the situation has been changed a lot. Now, with the huge penetration of small hand held computer devices like tablets and smart phones, it becomes difficult for small mobile browser to deal with these types of heavy plugins. Moreover, these plugins lead to crash of the browser due to lack of processing power and resources. Hence industry is hesitating to adopt such pieces and it is more likely inclining towards other substitutes, we will find it out soon.
Future demands light weight applications: As discussed above, user love the way they browse and use internet on handheld devices like smart phones and tablets. On the other hand, we have to accept that these devices are less resource extensive and less powerful than others. So, smart phone developers like iOS developer or Android developers are focusing on web app building that require less memory, less resource and should be light weight to make the user experience pleasant one.
HTML5 is the replacement for Silverlight: The most important reason for the loss of demand of Silver light is nothing but HTML5. HTML5 is a new generation HTML for the web developers. It is like a boon for the future web developers. Moreover, it is mostly useful for developing web apps, native apps and hybrid apps for different smart phones and tablets under different platforms like android and windows etc. The question comes why HTML5 and why not SilverLight? HTML5 has a unique attribute i.e. < Video > this enables web developer in building modern web apps that are extremely beautiful and interactive. Moreover, it can also play different multimedia files without the need of any plugin in the browser!! To add this, web developers or mobile app developers can develop attractive graphics, games on the web page using < canvas > attribute of HTML5. There are many other features as well which when combine with CSS3 results in awesome and brilliant user interface.
Cross platform compatibility matters a lot: Finally, cross platform compatibility! It matters a lot when we think about platforms like Android, iOS, windows, Firefox etc; we are bound to think of compatibility issue. To avoid this, HTML5 can help us in much more proficient manner than that of Silverlight. Finally, we have to accept that everything comes with an expiry date, probably Silverlight has reached at that point little sooner than our expectation, that’s it!!
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Future demands light weight applications: As discussed above, user love the way they browse and use internet on handheld devices like smart phones and tablets. On the other hand, we have to accept that these devices are less resource extensive and less powerful than others. So, smart phone developers like iOS developer or Android developers are focusing on web app building that require less memory, less resource and should be light weight to make the user experience pleasant one.
HTML5 is the replacement for Silverlight: The most important reason for the loss of demand of Silver light is nothing but HTML5. HTML5 is a new generation HTML for the web developers. It is like a boon for the future web developers. Moreover, it is mostly useful for developing web apps, native apps and hybrid apps for different smart phones and tablets under different platforms like android and windows etc. The question comes why HTML5 and why not SilverLight? HTML5 has a unique attribute i.e. < Video > this enables web developer in building modern web apps that are extremely beautiful and interactive. Moreover, it can also play different multimedia files without the need of any plugin in the browser!! To add this, web developers or mobile app developers can develop attractive graphics, games on the web page using < canvas > attribute of HTML5. There are many other features as well which when combine with CSS3 results in awesome and brilliant user interface.
Cross platform compatibility matters a lot: Finally, cross platform compatibility! It matters a lot when we think about platforms like Android, iOS, windows, Firefox etc; we are bound to think of compatibility issue. To avoid this, HTML5 can help us in much more proficient manner than that of Silverlight. Finally, we have to accept that everything comes with an expiry date, probably Silverlight has reached at that point little sooner than our expectation, that’s it!!
You can hire developers from top RIA development companies in India who can help you build applications within allocated budgets and time schedules.
We provide silverlight application development services. If you would like to hire silverlight developers from our team, please get in touch with us.
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