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john.lewin

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Novell to bring open source Silverlight clone to iPhone (Download Squad)

Sep 7th 2010 3:29PM Actually, I think you are missing the point. SL and XNA are different frameworks, but they are both available under MONO, and possibly or in a limited sense candidates to develop on Iphones/Ipads

Novell to bring open source Silverlight clone to iPhone (Download Squad)

Sep 7th 2010 1:43PM I use both, and while HTML5 is great, particularly in its ubiquity, if you are doing more than webpages with a little video or such HTML5 is not competitive. For proper applications -- the kinds of things that require data structures and engineering -- you need to be able to program as well as skin the pretty stuff.

On that front, the falloff from C#/Silverlight to say, PHP/HTML5 or HTML5/Java or the like is pretty sizable.