Is Silverlight dead?
Microsoft has recently released Silverlight 5 though it is moving away from Silverlight to HTML5. So, is this the last release of SilverLight?The big question is "Is Silverlight dead?"
Silverlight is a browser plugin which works well on a desktop environment. But as we are now in the world of smart phones/tab devices where plugins are considered as evil, Silverlight would have hard time to survive.Though silverlight is cross platform but only for desktop environment. As we are now in the world of smart phones/tab devices, the meaning of cross platform solution has changed. HTML5 is the true cross platform solution for everything. So, it might be good to consider HTML5/css3.