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[Joshua Gardner <mellowcellofellow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Haven't listened yet. Not sure it's a good idea, though.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Hilton Shumway<hillshum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Did you listen to today's FLOSS Weekly? I don't particularly like the idea
> of using Silverlight either, just wondering. And it looks like we don't need
> an ActiveX control...
> Hilton
>
> Send me all the forwards/chain mails you want. No guaranties I will freak
> out, cry, continue, or otherwise do anything with (or even read) them
> though.
> A selected quote: A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -
> Sir Francis Bacon
> A random quote:
> Mike Ditka  - "If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given
> us arms."
>
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Joshua Gardner
> <mellowcellofellow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I'd be disinclined to use Silverlight for this project unless you can
>> show me something actually using it. I've never heard of using
>> IronPython in Silverlight before, and I've never actually used a
>> Silverlight app (tried but Moonlight always chokes on them and I don't
>> have a fast enough Windows machine to deal with Silverlight).
>>
>> That's another consideration: performance. And size too. Embedding
>> IronPython -- almost the entirety of it I'd expect -- inside of a
>> Silverlight app doesn't sound like a good idea.
>>
>> What's the matter with HTML+CSS+JavaScript (and a few other things
>> like SVG and XML) on the browser side anyway?
>>
>> -Josh
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Hilton Shumway<hillshum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > IronPython is a Python implementaion written it C# on the .NET platform.
>> > This is of interest to us because Silverlight/Moonlight includes
>> > IronPython,
>> > allowing us to write Python for web browsers.
>> > Is this of any interest? There of course are folks who would shun us if
>> > we
>> > even think about using Mono. Also, any bits of Parliament etc that use C
>> > would need to be rewritten to use C#...
>> >
>> > Hilton
>> >
>> > Send me all the forwards/chain mails you want. No guaranties I will
>> > freak
>> > out, cry, continue, or otherwise do anything with (or even read) them
>> > though.
>> > A selected quote: A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
>> > -
>> > Sir Francis Bacon
>> > A random quote:
>> > Charles de Gaulle  - "The better I get to know men, the more I find
>> > myself
>> > loving dogs."
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>>
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>>
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>
>



-- 
Society loses the value of things which are uselessly destroyed.
--Frederick Bastiat

GCS/B/M d+ s+ a--- C++ UL++ Py+++ L+++ E- W++ w-- M- PS+++ PE+++ Y+>++
PGP+ t+ R tv- b+ DI++ G e h! r! y-