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Today came across great article “TOP 10 SILVERLIGHT MYTHS AND THE FACTS TO BUST THEM” written by Jeremy LIKNESS from Wintellect .

Highly recommend to read it.

List of Myths from it:

  • Silverlight is mainly for video
  • Silverlight requires Microsoft web servers to run
  • Microsoft tools for Silverlight are expensive
  • Silverlight doesn’t work on … (Mac, Chrome, etc.)
  • Silverlight is buggy
  • HTML5 is going to kill Silverlight
  • Silverlight is about smashing open standards
  • It’s hard to develop for Silverlight
  • There aren’t good materials to learn Silverlight
  • There aren’t many practical Silverlight application