Without basic UI controls such as text box, drop down list, radio button list, data table, etc., Silverlight is completely unusable for what I want to use it for. I want to use it for data driven applications that make use of web services. I have no use
for audio or video or the other more wiz bang features. This is not a Flash killer. Not yet anyway. It's looking like it'll be several years before the technology will be mature enough to use if it doesn't even have the most fundamental UI elements in it.
Also, it crashed on me in Firefox on Mac OS X within a minute of use. It's going to need to match Flash in terms of stability. Stable only in IE on Windows isn't going to cut it.
jemiller
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Unusable without basic UI controls
May 04, 2007 03:25 PM | LINK
Without basic UI controls such as text box, drop down list, radio button list, data table, etc., Silverlight is completely unusable for what I want to use it for. I want to use it for data driven applications that make use of web services. I have no use for audio or video or the other more wiz bang features. This is not a Flash killer. Not yet anyway. It's looking like it'll be several years before the technology will be mature enough to use if it doesn't even have the most fundamental UI elements in it. Also, it crashed on me in Firefox on Mac OS X within a minute of use. It's going to need to match Flash in terms of stability. Stable only in IE on Windows isn't going to cut it.