With new JavaScript libraries like Modernizr, jQuery along with Polyfills, you can even use many HTML5 features and still have good functionality on ALL major browsers - not just the most recent generation. If you are creating an application for the web that needs images, links and text boxes, some animations and interactivity, there's no reason you shouldn't use HTML. Silverlight CAN do some things that HTML5 can't. There's no question that advanced media apps, 3d, DVR video scenarios shine on Silverlight. The web will be pushed forward by all these and more. Each new spec will add new features, innovating, and pushing the others forward. Silverlight 5 will become Silverlight 6, Flash 10 will become Flash 11 and HTML5 will become HTML6. Those features will eventually find their way into browsers in a few years and the cycle will continue. Plugins rev and add new more advanced features like DVR-like video and hardware-accelerated 3D. As newer browsers include useful features like geolocation and video that used to require plugins, then older plugins become unnecessary. Your web apps should use techniques like progressive enhancement to detect available features. HTML5 isn't 100% done, but today it's already a collection of things that can be used now.
Browser plugins like Silverlight and Flash can add new functionality faster. Some enterprises will be on Firefox 3.6 for a while longer, or (hopefully not) IE6. Should I use HTML5 or Silverlight in my Applications? If you're embracing jQuery, where does Silverlight fit in?Įven though browsers like Chrome release and update very often, not every company is going to upgrade all their browsers every week or even twice a year. NOTE: I'm talking only about Silverlight in web browsers, not Silverlight for Phone, Games, Out of Browser, High Trust, and other environments that are uniquely Silverlighty. Here's what the young man asked me and what I told him. That said, I don't think it's that hard and I'm surprised there's so much confusion about this (both outside and inside Microsoft.) Companies have their official positions but then there's the realities of the web. But I do have an opinion one that is mine and no one else's. However, I'm not an official strategist, or marketing guy. Since I work for the Web Platform and Tools team (ASP.NET, IIS, etc) I spend a lot of time working, coding, and thinking about the web. I don't understand what Microsoft's strategy is or what to use in my app." After I presented on ASP.NET MVC 3, HTML5 and jQuery, one fellow came up after and said, "Should I use Silverlight or HTML5. I was in Belgium and The Netherlands this last week presenting and talking to folks in the community.
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