Is HTML 5 + CSS 3> = Microsoft Silverlight

Question

It is said that unreleased HTML 5 and CSS 3 can create effects and graphics that can be done in Microsoft Silverlight. Is that true, then can I skip Silverlight training and wait for HTML5 and CSS3?

Answer 1

Silverlight is a web application development tool (RIA - Rich Internet Applications).

Pure HTML + CSS (even if it is HTML5 and CSS3) will only create websites, unless you put some code / frame behind you.

Therefore, although visually they may look similar, they are two completely different things behind the scenes.

Answer 2

This is similar to comparing apples and oranges, but one thing makes HTML 5 + CSS better than Silverlight: it works on every modern browser, mobile device, etc.

Answer 3

You do not need to wait for HTML5 and CSS 3, they are here today and can be used right now. Web standards are not “released” in the form in which this software is, they are standards of existing browser implementations.

Which front-end technology you choose depends on the requirements of the project, some things that are easy in Flash / Silverlight are still not possible or really difficult to achieve using web standards (think of Canvas and WebGL).

There is no final answer for this, and it will never be.

Answer 4

HTML5 + CSS + JavaScript, you mean? The future of the RIA looks great with the promise of these technologies; however, they are hardly a replacement for Silverlight right now. If you need to create a complex web application, Silverlight can do it, and although some browsers, such as Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, have already implemented parts of HTML5, the support is too jagged for you to create a stable cross-browser application.

Silverlight, however, should behave the same in all browsers in all operating systems.

Answer 5

if you use silverlight (and / or flash) only for a beautiful layout and some things, such as animation, yuo does not need this - this can only be done with html5 / css3.

but note that silverlight (and / or flash) gives you a ton of options to write applications that can do much more.

Answer 6

The only reason I prefer to use Flash / Silverlight over HTML + JS + CSS is that they work similarly on all platforms and they are not dependent on browser code, although html has some standards, but encoders do not have any standard. similar functionality requires different javascript in a different browser, and more compared to rendering html elements also differs in different browsers, therefore printing.

Regardless of whether HTML5 or HTML 10 comes in the future, they will attract developers, but they will not implement the correct OS standards, and browsers will always be weak enough.