On: Michael Arrington argues silverlight is the future of the web

[mynameishere]

Ease of deployment/integration is the crucial issue, of course. The Javascript+DOM+xmlhtmlrequest model is just so horrendously, hackishly chicken-wired I'm always ashamed to even touch it...much less use it professionally. Flash and java applets from day ONE were superior in every, single way...utterly superior...except when it comes to deployment/integration. Java applets have the habit of seizing up the machine and mysteriously failing to load...flash is a bit better, but is gradually turning into this decade's popup launcher. Neither work well with webpages. Their failure to really become platforms just shows that an extra second or two of wait time can be a competitive killer.

But, if MSFT can do this right, goodbye javascript.

[paul → mynameishere]

Applets were superior in every way except those that mattered: they never worked.

[bsaunder → paul]

And they were slow to load... and they had a default UI akin to Lotus Notes... and they didn't fit in seamlessly with the rest of the page.

[mynameishere → paul]

I tried to run the silverlight demo and it didn't seem to work either, so...more of the same.