A peek into the crystal ball - An empire named HTML5
After mobile Flash has been jilted, there's (more or less official) word out on the street that Silverlight 5 will be the last iteration of Microsoft's web interaction platform. Eventually, HTML5 seems to be the next big thing, and among many other reasons for the first major release of the web standard in ages, the following make most sense for me: No Framework or runtime required open specification in future, every browser will implement it without a plugin (bringing an end to license hell) Microsoft sure knows how to amaze developers, and with the incarnation of XAML, have given us a toolset that enables us to develop for the web, the mobile and the windows platform in the same comprehensible way. HTML5 is supposed to do the very same thing, and in addition enable us to develop for iOS and other non-.Net-aware platforms as well, all with the help of JavaScript (yuck!). That's what I call zombie technology : I thought JS was dead, but here it comes, stabbing us