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As soon as he get back from his first session at MIX11 (HTML5 for Silverlight Devs), Kevin Dockx decided to write a blog post about it.

Source: Kevin's Blog

Everyone who's here or who's following online will already have noticed there's a heavy focus on HTML5 this year - you can feel it in the Day 1 keynote (in tomorrow’s keynote, we’ll get some Silverlight 5 / Windows Phone 7 stuff), you can grasp it from the amount of sessions about HTML5. We're getting demo's showing off some CSS features, graphic features, video features, animations, ...

Jeff Meisner has news about Silverlight 5 beta that will be unveiled at MIX11, a few bits and pieces on progress in Windows Phone and a great speech from Bing chief Qi Lu.

Source: The Official Microsoft Blog

Silverlight 5 beta in the MIX. The Silverlight team announced via a blog post on Monday that it will introduce a beta version of Silverlight 5 – complete with demos – at the MIX show in Las Vegas. MIX runs from April 12 to April 14. The team also fleshed out its thoughts on the future of both Silverlight and HTML5. Check it out.

In this post, Jeremy Likness shares his thoughts on the upcoming Silverlight 5 release and Microsoft's position.

Source: C#er : IMage

I have a few things to cover on this post. I want to start with Silverlight 5 but stay tuned for some information about how you can learn more and ask direct questions about the Sterling database.

Walid, Scott and Soma from the Silverlight team share their thoughts on the role of plug-ins in general, and Silverlight in particular, in the context of HTML5 and the future of the web.

Source: Silverlight Team Blog

As we have been more vocal about our commitment to and investment in HTML5 as our direction going forward, we have received questions from the community about the future of plug-ins, and how Silverlight is viewed as part of an overall solution set.

Michael Washington has two posts discussing HTML5 and LightSwitch:

• LightSwitch vs HTML 5?
• HTML (including HTML 5) and LightSwitch at the same time?

  In a response to a recent Blog post, I indicated that you should be able to create a LightSwitch application, and later, if needed, create a HTML version. My point was that LightSwitch allows you to easily create Data Services that can be consumed by “other clients” such as your own custom Silverlight applications or even a HTML 5 website.

In this post, Steve Wortham discusses the future of both Silverlight 5 and HTML5.

Source: SilverlightXAP Blog

Ever since PDC last year there's been stirring talk about Silverlight's future. Some people think Silverlight's days are numbered with broad HTML5 support just around the corner. These rumors have been perpetuated even today by those anxious to see HTML5 come to fruition. And some irresponsible journalism may have been at play as well.

After his great face detection post, Vangos Pterneas has now created a simple motion detection application using Silverlight webcam support.

Source: Vangos Pterneas' Blog

After the face detection post, it's time to dive a little deeper in Silverlight Computer Vision. We'll create a simple motion detection application using Silverlight webcam support!

You can view a demo of the application in my website. Download the source code too, in order to have a complete aspect of what's going on.

Shawn Wildermuth provokes you to join him on the adventure of building for all the next application platforms.

Source: Shawn Wildermuth's Blog

While we as technologists (or, if you prefer, geeks) are concerned with finding a winner in this fight, users don't care. What users do care about it access to your application. In the enterprise space this is easy. We can dictate how users access our applcations typically. We can specify the operating system and browser and build for a static platform. So that means building with Silvelright, Flex, .NET or Java; it doesn't matter. There are reasons to pick all these different platform choices (and I won't belabor them here). But that's where you're building a single experience for a well-known set of users. This is a lot of you out there.

Ian Yates has collected the opinions of 18 industry experts on the subject of Flash, HTML5, Silverlight and RIAs.

Source: Activetuts+

A huge thanks to everyone who gave up their time in contributing to this article. We’ve collected commentary from Authors, Designers, Developers, UI & UX Architects, Evangelists and Community Experts from all sides of the fence.

Also take a look at this article in which the contributors at SilverlightShow give opinion on the future of Silverlight and HTML5 technologies.

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