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90 Adobe Air Applications + 50 Silverlight Applications
There has been a lot of buzz about Adobe Air and Microsoft Silverlight and many people are experimenting with it. Most of these experiments are... well... just "an experiment", but some are actually very cool.
Here is a huge list if you want to see what is going on with these two technologies:
I would really like to see people focus more on making usable concepts, instead of just making technical experiments.
Do what thirteen23 did with WPF. Make stunning concepts that actually work. Spend a little extra time, and make it work for "normal" people. It takes longer to do, but the effect is 10 times better.
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Joel - Sep. 1, 2007
I agree with you about doing what thirteen23 has done with WPF and Silverlight. Most of the demos out there rarely rise to anything above hello world. thirteen23 is actively designing and developing concepts that resemble real solutions. They're not just blogging about conferences or posting examples from the sdk.
Published: Sep. 1, 2007
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Sean - Sep. 1, 2007
The trouble with new stuff like this is, as a developer you want to evaluate some specific aspects of it. Therefore the developments are half-baked. Anything that is potentially a serious development (at least from anyone willing to fund a serious development) will probably need a longer runtime to iron out kinks before it gets released.
In the case of Silverlight, it still needs the release of Silverlight itself before the really cool stuff will start coming out publicly. Also with Silverlight, the desire to fund complex developments gets tainted with a lack of widespread adoption of the technology.