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JaggedSac said:

ssj12 said:

JaggedSac said:

ssj12 said:

JaggedSac said:

ssj12 said:
silverlight is such worthless technology now that HTML5 is out.

HTML 5 is out.  That is news to me.  Does IE support it?

nope, only stable browser is FireFox 3.5. Beta browsers that support it is Chrome and Safari.

And even then, they are only supporting a subset of the incomplete HTML 5 specifications.  I would hardly call that being out.  And until IE supports it, it might as well not be out.

For what reason? IE doesn't control the market anymore and by the time IE9 is out it HTML6 will be out. Between FireFox, Chrome, Safari, and various other browsers they control between 33% - 59% of the market mattering what statistics you look at. Since older versions of IE (6 and older) are irralevent now a days for a good chunk of the web needs at least HTML4 as the base standard I'd believe the number is closer to 59% then 33%.

Plus FF3.5 might miss some HTML5 subsets but it has enough to make use of Video Bay, and soon YouTube followed by many other websites, which uses HTML5 for all videos.

No matter what HTML5 > SilverLight (plus from what I have seen it kicks the hell out of good old Java).

HTML 5 specs are not complete.  And will not be for quite some time.  If you think HTML 6 is coming out anytime soon, you are sorely mistaken.  IE matters because it still controls 60% of the browser market.  No one is going to design their site with video tags that IE doesn't recognize.  They will just use Flash, and to a lesser extent Silverlight.  If you think Flash and Silverlight are going anywhere, you are mistaken.  Flex and Silverlight are programmer oriented tools that enable the creation of rich applications that are guaranteed to look the same in each browser.

And if you think HTML5 has anything at all to do with Java, you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.  You probably should have just left out that last sentence.

EDIT: Unless you are talking about applets, which were dead on arrival many years ago.

1. Who cares if its not complete. The spec as is has some amazing features.

2. I know it isnt going to be released soon... which is why I said by the time IE9 will be out which I doubt will be released till late 2010.

3. I know it doesn't. Just like Silverlight really has nothing to do with HTML. It is a reference to features provided by the software. IE Java's ability to present video.

4. IE DOES NOT CONTROL 60% OF THE MARKET.