Microsoft is rumored to stop its Flash alternative Silverlight. It would also be the last major release, version 5 only works with Internet Explorer and on Windows systems, and not with other browsers or on Mac OS X.
It is unclear why Microsoft would want to stop the development of Silverlight. The technology would remain in use as ontwikkeplatform for rich-media applications and for apps on Windows Phone 7, reports Mary Jo Foley, editor of ZDNet, full-time writes about Microsoft, and that in the past, often as the first development at Microsoft, it has been reported.
The release, according to ZDNet only available for Windows systems. In addition, it would reportedly except Internet Explorer, other browsers are not supported. Microsoft showed last year already know that Silverlight only promoted will be as ontwikkelruntime for Windows Phone 7 and some applications in the field of media and line-of-business-applications’.
The rtm release of Silverlight 5 is expected for the end of november appear. One of the main innovations is the support for hardware accelerated playback of h.264 videos using the gpu. Also, 3d graphics via the graphics processor are handled, while with the Trickplay feature videos accelerated without the audio pitch is distorted.
The software manufacturer gave already earlier that the more attention would be given to html5 and other related technologies. According to Microsoft, is html5 at high speed by the software industry embraced it and is this also necessary for the various mobile platforms to be able to correctly operate.
Adobe, the manufacturer of a Silverlight competitor to Flash, made Wednesday announced that it will stop supporting Flash on mobile phones. Instead, the company wants the developer of Flash applications easier to create applications with the Adobe Air runtime. This should be possible from a single codebase apps for various platforms to write.