Is Silverlight’s best kept secret still to come? I think so. Scott Guthrie is the man behind the Silverlight project (and other wicked Microsoft Dev Project), and in a recent interview on Channel 9, he explained how he holds people’s feet to the fire to keep the runtime small, and keeping the code tight!
“Not in a minute, not in thirty seconds, but much faster!”
Scott Guthrie: What’s Coming for Mix, Part 1: IIS7 for Developers
This is exciting, because as cool as Silverlight is, if it’s not installed on every machine, or if it’s too hard to install on people’s machines, then it’s not going to take off. If its small, dare I say smaller than flash, and simple to install, then you are going to see MASSIVE adoption of Silverlight. If you can throw the CLR in there, and keep it small, INSANE
Cross Domain Network Access! Speed! Awesome beautiful web sites… Silverlight rocks!