

Adobe Flash is installed on a huge number of computers and various operating systems. This is the obvious contender, the one technology that is most often mentioned when Silverlight is compared to other frameworks. In that field, the landscape didn't really change much since Silverlight 2, with the exception maybe of XHTML, which is barely mentioned anymore and considered already obsolete now that HTML5 is becoming a trending topic. Silverlight is traditionally a connected application running within a web browser. In that sense, Silverlight is pretty unique. Interestingly, though, not many technologies allow you to program just once but run on multiple platforms and in multiple modes (offline/online, in the browser/out of the browser). Learn More Buy Alternatives to Silverlightīecause Silverlight 4 can run inside or outside of the web browser, its alternatives cover a wider landscape.
