Silverlight (Re: thread policy)

[Max Battcher]

William T Goodall wrote:
> It uses Microsoft's proprietary XAML, it plays WMV files but not H.264  
> and so on. Business as usual with regard to standards it seems.

How is XAML any worse than that binary soup that Flash uses?  What 
standard would you replace XAML with?  SVG doesn't do animations or 
controls or data-binding...  Right now you can't directly embed SVG 
documents into XAML, but conversion appears straight-forward (and 
already exists in several forms including bundled with Inkscape).

VC-1 is just as open as H.264 is and the merits of one versus the other 
can be debated endlessly.  I don't think that either "standard" is the 
best, and I guess in a perfect world both Silverlight and Flash would 
support both.  (I believe that Moonlight has some H.264 support, at least.)

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