Silverlight at an End... RIP

I was aghast when I saw this article...

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/307687/html_5_could_it_kill_flash_silverlight?fp=16&fpid=1

don't get me wrong I think html 5 is great but there are so many wholes and are we really expecting all the browser's to get together and get it straight as to rendering behavior? not to mention all the nonsense about 'assumed' markup that browsers try to fix poorly formed markup. I mean really why not just use the SGML spec and call it good...

Any case with the coming trends towards UX and high touch I think the html 5 spec is too little to late for killing Silverlight and flash.

Xaml WCF Binding Type

Just kidding... as of late I am not aware of such a think however, it could be done. I was pooring over the great project in outer darkness I'm working on and Karim sitting near by was talking about using Xaml as Clr Object markup and Xaml Reader. In joking about it came up to use Xaml as and WCF binding type. Eventually we got to a more serouse topic about the limitations of WCF support in Silverlight event Silverlight 3. In any case John Papa's book on data driven services with Silverlight 2 is probably the best resource on the topic as of late and John did quick post recently on Silverlight 3 and bindings supporting in Silverlight 3 which includes binary support which would be made in some 'Xaml' hack :)

http://johnpapa.net/silverlight/wcf-binary-bindings-in-silverlight-3/

Surface Everywhere

check out this TED conference demo doing multitouch sort of on any where. I can totally see this when I walk up to some one and then their shirt will suddending say this guy is an idiot so I know up front whom I am dealing with...

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

I totally want a 'six' sense...