I believe in RIAs because developing an HTML\/AJAX application is just painful.\u00a0 And I believe that Silverlight provides an excellent RIA solution.\u00a0 For two great examples of Silverlight in action look at:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/windows4all.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

and,<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.worldwidetelescope.org\/webclient\/<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

These both look and feel like desktop applications but are running safely in your friendly browser.<\/p>\n

Be aware that CodePlex has a project for windows4all.com (http:\/\/windows4all.codeplex.com\/<\/a>) but all of the source code is not provided.\u00a0 Just a Visual Studio shell application.\u00a0 It would be great to sneak a peek at the code under the covers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I believe in RIAs because developing an HTML\/AJAX application is just painful.\u00a0 And I believe that Silverlight provides an excellent RIA solution.\u00a0 For two great examples of Silverlight in action look at: http:\/\/windows4all.com\/ and, http:\/\/www.worldwidetelescope.org\/webclient\/ These both look and feel like desktop applications but are running safely in your friendly browser. Be aware that CodePlex […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}