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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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Vassil Terziev from Telerik discusses the news about the change of Microsoft plans regarding Silverlight and HTML5 and announces that his company is still going to support Silverlight.

Source: Telerik Blogs

In short - we love Silverlight, our customers love it and we don’t see it dying, nor will we abandon it. Silverlight might benefit from some improvements, but is not dead and will not die that easily. It might not be the “premier” UI technology of Microsoft (whatever that means, I never really understood that message) but it will thrive in many types of applications. Perhaps Microsoft raised the expectations too high when they announced Silverlight a few years ago and its benefits were blown out of proportion. I guess many people expected that there would be nothing but Silverlight.

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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The recent news about the change of Microsoft plans regarding Silverlight and HTML5 have triggered a lot of buzz lately, and we, as a major portal for Silverlight resources, were of course concerned about how exactly we should interpret them.

We asked the contributors at SilverlightShow to comment on those news, and give opinion on the future of Silverlight and HTML5 technologies. Feel free to share your own opinion below this article, or inside our LinkedIn and Facebook discussions on the topic.

Gill Cleeren, www.snowball.be
 
Since last Friday, there has been some heated discussion on the future of Silverlight and HTML5, after Mary Jo Foley posted an article, based on an interview with Bob Muglia.

You've probably read or heard about some of the comments made about the future of Silverlight during the PDC conference last week. There's been a lot of panic in the Siverlight world followed by many tweets and blog posts on that topic. Is Silverlight dead? Is HTML5 going to take over the Silverlight? Is Microsoft changing their vision? These are only a small part of the questions that you can find online.

Two discussions have been started on LinkedIN and Facebook, where you can share the answers to these questions and your opinion about this hot topic for the future of Silverlight and HTML5.

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After the post “Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted” made on ZDNet.com, there was a panic online about the Microsoft strategy on Silverlight and lots of people continue to blog about that:

• Silverlight *versus* HTML5? Really? 
• Silverlight is dead. Long live Silverlight!
• Is Silverlight Dead? Answer is “No, don’t be panic” 
• And they lived happily ever after: Silverlight is here to stay (Part 2)
• Committed to Silverlight 

Find more information here

There are two discussions on LinkedIN and Facebook, where you can share your opinion about this hot topic for the future of Silverlight and HTML5.

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Here is the article of Mary Jo Foley that provoked so many discussions and reflections about the future of Silverlight.

Source: ZDNet

“Silverlight is our development platform for Windows Phone,” he said. Silverlight also has some “sweet spots” in media and line-of-business applications, he said.

But when it comes to touting Silverlight as Microsoft’s vehicle for delivering a cross-platform runtime, “our strategy has shifted,” Muglia told me.

Silverlight will continue to be a cross-platform solution, working on a variety of operating system/browser platforms, going forward, he said. “But HTML is the only true cross platform solution for everything, including (Apple’s) iOS platform,” Muglia said.

• Is Silverlight dead? Is WPF dead? Read what Denis Basaric thinks about that!
• Post-PDC HTML5 v. Silverlight Debate
• Silverlight will stay, don’t worry
• My position on the #Silverlight debate
• Few thoughts on PDC 2010 and the Silverlight destiny…
• Silverlight and HTML5 and Your Future

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Source: Sparkling Client

Scott Barnes Interview

• Silverlight was much more popular than expected.
• Silverlight isn’t going anywhere 
• Enterprise adoption has been crazy good.
• Is the “WPF replaced by HTML5″ thought even a possibility? It sounds like such a weird idea.
  
  • The core problem is that the ranks of .NET developers isn’t growing.
  • PHP is the 800 lb gorilla inside of Microsoft – what to do?
  • How can more developers be brought onto the Microsoft stack?