![]() ![]() Live video streaming is something that in the past has been sufficiently difficult that you might have left it to a dedicated company, which would have ruled it out of the question for small-budget events. While adding basic video content to a Silverlight application is relatively easy, people often want to be able to do live streaming. I’ve seen some great Silverlight applications already, although it currently would appear best suited to data visualisation and video apps, but I’m sure that once limitations on secure access to the host system are lifted, we should see a greater variety appearing. Silverlight, with its greater flexibility and ease of programming, is more suited to application development where the user’s platform is known Talking to people such as Mark Quirk at Microsoft UK, I find their view is that HTML5 is the technology of choice for any public-facing web application, whereas Silverlight with its greater flexibility and ease of programming is more suited to application development where the user’s platform is known, or where it’s considered okay to restrict the application to run only on Windows or OS X devices.
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