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It may be supported until 2021 but clearly new devices and apps/plugins wont!
I used to use the OS getamap service in the uk which was excellent but only supports silverlight, so when I switched from windows laptop to chromebook I had to give it up, I spoke to os and they do not have any clear plans as I can see to move to html5 however I notice that on there site it mentions silverlight supported on 60 percent of internet platforms which has to be a concern for any company with such a product as this percentage is not going to increase!
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It was too advanced so has been scrapped
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There is also some (posible FUD) discussion that new versions of Chrome will not support it?
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I'm thinking that if this is an intranet application with limited lifespan, i.e., not beyond 2021 then you could use Silverlight, otherwise use something else. Also, does it require features in Silverlight that are not yet available in current standard web technologies?
Kevin
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With jQuery and/or HTML5/CSS3 available, Silverlight does not really matter much. I am no web development guru but still, if I were to choose, as a client, I would go for half-baked HTML5 and crazy client side scripting in jQuery. Reason would be simple, Silverlight is not going to evolve. Others might.
Moreover, if I were to move on to phone and other gadgets, I would go for HTML5 and MVC combination. It all depends on the employer. We can only provide scenarios and solutions.
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Comments from d@nish mention HTML5/CSS.
I work primarily with products for a particular vendor. One of their visualization tools was developed using Silverlight a couple of years back. I think they saw the direction Silverlight was headed and decided to port the application and all further visualization tools to HTML5.
The stated advantages were: users could use non-Windows devices for browser based applications and it lent itself to mobile devices. The first non-Windows ports of the application were for iPhones and iPads.
Tim
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It's effectively dead.
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Opinion: Dead, as far as I'm concerned, because 1) it only plays with Microsoft mobile products and 2) because the industry has moved on (not necessarily in the right direction, but it has moved.)
Marc
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Silverlight is the predecessor to XAML.
Xaml is the windows one standard for GUI's.
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DOA
It would be hard to recommend something that is frozen in time and will need an add-in in order to work.
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Silverlight is very much alive and kicking. It just morphed into "modern apps" for windows phone and windows 8.x
Internally at microsoft, these technologies are refered to as "Silverlight 8".
But you off course mean Silverlight as a webbrowser plugin.
Well, as others have said, it's supported through 2021. So I consider it still a viable technology to use for applications that typically don't have a long lifespan of 5+ years.
For apps with longer lifespan... Silverlight is probably not the best idea.
For me, the go-to tech for line of business apps now is either ASP MVC for web or WPF for desktop.
And it makes me sad, because I love XAML and MVVM.
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It name now serves as a differentiator between "real WP 8.1" and "WP Silverlight 8.1" apps  so I think this is the last time we see Silverlight name, now that W 8.1 and WP 8.1 share the same core finally. We should be working on business apps for Windows 8.1, Silverlight as we knew it (web hosted) is dead
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HTML5 and javascript have replaced Silverlight as a cross-browser cross-platform web solution. I was actively involved in its development (as much as I could be) until it was killed off. No more cross-browser plugin technologies, didn't work on mobile devices already, etc. were main reasons, so I wouldn't recommend it there.
Mark Salsbery
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Silverlight evolved into Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps, but the main web plugin is dead on the water, so if this is a new development, I suggest you to use something else.
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Please help me on, how to get data from billing machine.
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Have you tried asking nicely?
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Dalek Dave wrote: Have you tried asking nicely in the right Forum?
FTFY!
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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Dalek Dave wrote: Have you tried asking nicely Plz sendz codez. Urgenz?
FTFY.
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Does the billing machine come with hard disk or memory card?
On a serious note: Lounge is not the right place. Check out top sticky post.
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I'd rather get cash from billing machine.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If OP is talking about getting data from hand held card swipe machines, wouldn't you look stupid trying to find a drawer for cash?
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d@nish wrote: drawer for cash?
I thought it was only strippers that had drawers full of cash? Ahem, at least so I've heard. I honestly wouldn't know... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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sounds like a man with experience Johnny 
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In these low inflation, low interest times it is not a bad idea to have a reasonable stack of cash in your house somewhere. Yes, it is losing value, but only slowly, and it will save you if your bank cards stop working for a few days.
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TBH, I thunked he was referring to a POS.
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