> That's not really fair to MS since all the web frameworks which were born in that era (Adobe's AIR, JavaFX as a web tech, etc.) died because IE died. And also because Apple killed off browser plugins since they didn't work on the iPhone.
Who could have foreseen that hitching your horse to derpy, single-vendor RIA frameworks that were closed source proprietary and worked on the basis of shoving foreign content into the browser to get it to do non-Web things was a bad idea? Oh wait, anyone.
In that vein, in response to the earlier remarks by the original commenter:
> Silverlight burned a lot of small businesses hard, almost everywhere I've worked has had a silverlight horror story of a project they experimented in it with only for it to languish. So now they either have some outdated dependencies they'll never update or had to re-write it back into something else.
Yeah, good. That pain is well-deserved. Almost self-inflicted, even.
Who could have foreseen that hitching your horse to derpy, single-vendor RIA frameworks that were closed source proprietary and worked on the basis of shoving foreign content into the browser to get it to do non-Web things was a bad idea? Oh wait, anyone.
In that vein, in response to the earlier remarks by the original commenter:
> Silverlight burned a lot of small businesses hard, almost everywhere I've worked has had a silverlight horror story of a project they experimented in it with only for it to languish. So now they either have some outdated dependencies they'll never update or had to re-write it back into something else.
Yeah, good. That pain is well-deserved. Almost self-inflicted, even.