Adobe, Microsoft sword flash, Silverlight and HTML5

About three years ago, Microsoft launched Silverlight 1.0. At that time, Adobe held its own weight with flash, despite Microsoft's
The promotion is very strong, but it does not shake Adobe's dominant position. Maybe the market has reserved space for both of them. Now HTML5
In a strong sense, informationweek.com convened a debate between Microsoft and Adobe On flash, Silverlight, and HTML5.

The following is a record of the debate competition, including the techweb Content Editor David.
Berlind
, Myself
, Dr. Dobbs editor-in-chief Jon
Erickson, Brian Goldfarb, marketing director of Microsoft development platform, and Anup murarka, Adobe's technical strategy director.

Http:// I .cmpnet.com/infoweek/audio/FritzAndDavidShow201004FlashVsSilverlight.mp3

Attract developers

Developers are the core of the competition between the two companies. Adobe has almost seized all terminal user markets. 98% of computers on the Internet run flash, while Flash 10
It has reached 95% in a year, which is very important for developers. Although Adobe is not an operating system provider, they allow flash to access almost every browser and platform.

Microsoft's Silverlight has grown to V4, claiming to have 45% of the market, which is higher than (60%) in Europe and Asia ). It also provides cross-platform and browser support, although
Linux support is not timely enough. In addition, Microsoft claims that they already have nearly 0.5 million developers.

Both of them have super-major customers. Microsoft is benefiting from the proliferation of sports events, including the just-concluded Winter Olympics and the upcoming National College Basketball Championship.
Victoria lingerie show also provides online videos. Adobe covers almost all large video websites, including YouTube and Hulu.

During the debate, the two sides held a debate on these figures. However, the two sides talked more about the development tools they provide for developers. Microsoft in Silverlight
They provided development tools to the developer community when Silverlight was just launched. Microsoft. NET developers can directly
Studio. Flash developers use ActionScript, flex, and Flash builder.
And other tools for development.

In addition, in terms of encoder, API, audio processing, file format and size, performance, and Animation Mode, both parties have their own advantages. However, the debate between the two parties is ultimately focused on how to simultaneously attract both the front-end and the back-end
End developer. Microsoft Expression
Currently only
Windows, the Mac camp developers are rejected, while Adobe also uses the Catalyst
Attract developers from various platforms.

Microsoft's Goldfarb mentioned that they pay attention to the developer tradition. Adobe emphasizes their user base and both parties guarantee that they will provide cross-media and rich
Internet experience.

HTML5

If the launch of Silverlight makes Adobe feel tricky, now both parties should feel tricky about HTML5. The mission of HTML5 is to make the rich
Internet applications become HTML standards (Dr
Dobbs report
). However, both sides do not acknowledge HTML5's threat to them. On the contrary, they said that they should coexist with HTML5 in a peaceful manner to allow flash
And Silverlight work in HTML5 and provide support for HTML5 in their tools. They also mentioned that HTML5
There is still a long way ahead. At present, it is only the first step of the long journey, and the front is still full of variables. At the same time, whether it is flash or Silverlight
All have their own markets, even when HTML5 is mature (Gartner's Ray Valdes
There is an article that compares HTML5, Flash, and Silverlight in detail.
).

Websites such as YouTube and vimeo have activated HTML5 support. However
The biggest expectation is that it will make it easier for rich media to search. Both Microsoft and Adobe talked about their efforts to make Silverlight and flash easier to search.

Mobile

Finally, we talked about mobile. In the mobile market, both companies have just started. However, Adobe's murarka mentioned that in Japan, flash
It is the second largest mobile application except short messages. According to their roadmap, they will provide Flash Support (Google
Has demonstrated flash in Android ).

Speaking of Microsoft, although Silverlight does not even support Microsoft's own mobile operating system, Goldfarb said this was their goal and he did not respond
Windows Phone 7 supports Silverlight. However, Microsoft has announced cooperation with Nokia to provide the Symbian System
Silverlight.

Next, let's talk about the iPhone. Adobe has asked developers to write Flash files that can run on the iPhone.
Programs, murarka said, they will continue to communicate with Apple, but apple is not allowed to run explain code (Java, PHP, Perl) on the iPhone ).

Given that more mobile devices will be put into use than desktop computers in the future, Microsoft and Adobe will compete fiercely in the mobile field. Currently, mobile phone hardware is not suitable for running too many rich Internet applications.
But with the development of hardware, it will be available in the next two or three years.

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