Silverlight – The New WebForms?

Posted by Steven | Filed under Silverlight, Web Standards

I was reading through my RSS feeds the other day and came across a post by Dave Ward aka Encosia entitled “Is Silverlight the new WebForms” which pretty much covered all of my thinking on Silverlight so far.  Rather than rehash everything Dave has said why don’t you go read his post.

With my accessibility hat on I worry about the widespread adoption of Silverlight as a replacement for ASP.net WebForms or standard HTML/CSS/Javascript.  With all the positive progress the web standards community has made in driving forward the “accessible web”, adopting Silverlight as a direct replacement could be heading down the Flash inaccessibility path again.  Don’t get my wrong, Silverlight is a great technology and the ability to utilise the .net framework in the browser is just fantastic but as a replacement for WebForms, I think it’s misguided.

Read more | Comments (0) | September 18th, 2009