Re:About Silverlight? (Score 1)

I agree that Microsoft's goal is probably to push Silverlight and locking up the AJAX space with something they have control over... But I'm not sure the word 'rapid' could be used to talk about anything as it pertains to Javascript. The language fundamentally hasn't moved in the last decade. There are some real benefits to Silverlight, there are also some real drawbacks in it's current versions but I don't see Silverlight as competing with Javascript. It's a competitor to Flash, not necessarily Javascript unless you step way back and try to summarize each technology in one sentence. Even then, it's a bit of a stretch.