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Silverlight Feature comparison with Flash Features

Silverlight Feature comparison with Flash Features


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Animation - Silverlight supports the WPF animation model, which is not only time based instead of frame based, but lets you define the start and end conditions and it will figure out how to get there for you. No need to deal with matrixes like in flash. Also no need to calculate positions on various frames. It just works. The animation model is frame based.
Silverlight uses XAML. XAML is text based and can be output using a simple XML object. Flash stores its shapes using binary shape records. In order to write shape definitions, you will need to either license a 3rd party Flash file format SDK, or build your own. It isn’t too difficult, but it does require a bit of a learning curve.
The debugging with Silverlight is simpler than with flash. The debugging with flash is harder than Silverlight.
Silverlight lets you embed true type font information directly into your projects, and download that information with the web client object. Downloader is no longer available but we have web client. Dealing with fonts is fairly complex with flash.
XAML is declarative while ActionScript is imperative. Using imperative languages to build UIs goes back to the early days of DOS and Windows, when developers had to manage all of the API nuances when interacting with graphical panes. ActionScript is an imperative language, which brings itself the pitfalls of imperative languages when compared with declarative languages.
Additional Support for mobile devices with desktop and desktop browsers:Silverlight is supported by Windows mobile device as part of a new service that the NBL have built. Silverlight applications and media streaming can be run on a mobile phone - so Silverlight even at this stage is about more than just the desktop browser and desktop market. Silverlight may be seen soon on the Symbian OS too. Flash is not spread as across the vast majority of both desktops and mobiles platforms, as compared to Silverlight. Flash requires Flash Lite preinstalled on mobile devices.
Silverlight does not require video codec to run industry standard videos like .WMV Flash requires video codec to run .WMV videos.
Silverlight supports scalable video formats from HD to mobile. Flash does not support scalable video formats from HD to mobile
Silverlight supports Hardware-assisted editing and encoding solutions. Flash does not support Hardware-assisted editing and encoding solutions.
Silverlight provides End-to-end server and application platform. Flash does not provide End-to-end server and application platform.
Media server licensing is cheaper than flash. Media server licensing is costier than Silverlight.
Silverlight supports Scalable full screen video. Flash does not support Scalable full screen video.