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By Korak1 on
So the early reviews on Silverlight sound like it will profoundly affect the development environment for web sites and applications. In particular, performance speed much higher than AJAX make it compelling. The video streaming tools also sound hugely impactful. Are there any Uber-Drupal folks out there with thoughts on how it will affect Drupal? Or if it will at all?
Korak
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the same thing as Flash
i'm not a drupal core developer and i'm pretty new here, so my response have to be readed as "IMHO".
One important thing about Drupal (core) : it respects interoperability and standard. Silverlight is the exact opposite of that. So the impact of Silverlight in Drupal may be the same as the impact of Flash in Drupal (and lesser because Flash is running over various OS).
XAML and XML
Silverlight is designed to do what Flash has evolved to do. Once people start getting familiar with the technology we could see some interesting developments.
Silverlight may be using proprietary standards, but Drupal is flexible enough to work around that; especially as its theming engines and modules could output XAML and XML for Silverlight to work with.
Silverlight is not like flash
Maybe you can reach the same with silverlight and flash, but the technologie is different! Silverlight ist based on an new XML-derivate called XAML. This XAML-Code could be generated by a CMS.
To generate another xml-derivate than HTML would be very difficult with drupal. Drupal generates much of the HTML-output deep in the core :-(
Ok, you can override some of the outputting functions, but it would take years to get all output transformed.
Look at umbraco, a CMS in which you can control every single tag with XSLT. With it, Silverlight should not be a problem.
Daniel Greitens
MVP Visual Developer Expression
Look at umbraco ASP.NET???
ASP.NET??? Thanks.