Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding.
* Transform artwork created in Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator® into functional user interfaces.
* Create interactive prototypes with the ability to leverage them in the final product
* Publish a finished project as a SWF file ready for distribution
* Work more efficiently with developers who use Adobe Flash Builder™ 4 to create rich Internet applications (RIAs). Designers use Flash Catalyst to create the functional user experience then provide the project file to developers who use Flash Builder to add functionality and integrate with servers and services.
(Link: Adobe Flash Catalyst)
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June 1, 2009 
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Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters | Zoho Blogs
May 31, 2009 0 Comments
Let’s try to imagine what a Google Silverlight would have been. It would have been a fully open source product from Google, with a very liberal open source license (BSD or Apache). It would have all the technical specifications published openly. They would pledge to have the Silverlight VM interoperate with Javascript and HTML5. And a company like Zoho would have a ton of developers working on Google Silverlight based applications by now – as opposed to having exactly ZERO developers working on Microsoft Silverlight. Please note that this has nothing to do with the technology: as I said before, I happen to agree that Silverlight is a great piece of technology.
(Link: Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters | Zoho Blogs)
Silverlight 3 to launch July 10
May 29, 2009 1 Comment
Microsoft is planning to launch Silverlight 3 and its Expression Studio 3 family of designer tools on July 10 in San Francisco, company officials said on May 28.
Silverlight 3 adds 3D support, GPU acceleration, H.264 video support and out-of-the-browser capabilities to Silverlight, Microsoft’s competitor to Adobe Flash. The out-of-browser support will add to Silverlight capabilities that are available currently in Adobe AIR.
(Link: Silverlight 3 to launch July 10)
Microsoft Silverlight Catching Up To Adobe Flash (MSFT, ADBE)
May 11, 2009 0 Comments
Microsoft has been able to get companies like NBC to use Silverlight for one-time projects like the Olympics by funding them.
(Link: Microsoft Silverlight Catching Up To Adobe Flash (MSFT, ADBE))
Flash vs. Silverlight: What Suits Your Needs Best?
May 11, 2009 0 Comments
Besides, as Doug S. is points out in the comments, it’s worth noticing that a minority of web users actually have a Silverlight plugin installed on their machine, while most users do have Flash-support. The Flash Player 9 and higher support streaming of the H.264 video codec which means anyone with a video program that can output an MP4 can stream to Flash. There are literally hundreds of free apps on Mac, PC and Linux that can do this. It’s also important to mention that the latest version of Flash Player supports 3D rendering while Silverlight does not and that SWF, FLA, FLV, and AS are all open-standard formats, while Silverlight is 100% proprietary.
(Link: Flash vs. Silverlight: What Suits Your Needs Best?)
Tim Anderson’s ITWriting – Tech writing blog » Silverlight: developer win, designer fail?
May 8, 2009 0 Comments
There are several reasons why Silverlight struggles to get designer attention, including:
1. Designers are pragmatic and target the runtime that is already deployed most broadly, ie. Flash.
2. Flash is already good enough so why bother?
3. The tools: Adobe’s designer tools are a de facto standard, target Flash, and run on the Mac.
(Link: Tim Anderson’s ITWriting – Tech writing blog » Silverlight: developer win, designer fail?)
Battle of the Titans: The Silverlight and Flash SmackDown
May 6, 2009 0 Comments
See Adobe Flash go head to head with Microsoft Silverlight, maybe walk away with an XBOX 360.
Finally, SmackDown has come back to Winnipeg on May 19th, 2009! For the first time under one roof, New Media Manitoba, Flash in the Peg, and the Winnipeg .net User Group bring you The Silverlight and Flash SmackDown!
(Link: Battle of the Titans: The Silverlight and Flash SmackDown)
A comparison of client-side web application frameworks
May 4, 2009 0 Comments
# Heavyweight (The entire app is pretty much on the client side and the framework is focused very much on making desktop-like applications – these are often used to create what are known as RIAs)
* Flex
* Sproutcore
* Cappuccino
* Open Laszlo
* Silverlight
* Qooxdoo
* JavascriptMVC
* Spry
* OAT
* JavaFX
* Tibco GI
(Link: A comparison of client-side web application frameworks)
Silverlight Development for the Flex Developer | InsideRIA
April 15, 2009 0 Comments
Alternative title for this article could be “A list of features where Silverlight is equivalent-to or better-than Flex”. I wish Tom Lauck would’ve spent some time on what Flex developers lose by moving to Silverlight and not just on what they gain.
(Link: Silverlight Development for the Flex Developer | InsideRIA)
flash, flex, propelpot, ria, silverlight
Gmail Sidesteps the App Store with HTML5
April 15, 2009 0 Comments
These devices run browsers based on the open-source Webkit code base, which has already implemented features required under the forthcoming Web programming standard HTML 5.
(Link: Gmail Sidesteps the App Store with HTML5)
