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		RyanMcGreal on Nov 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft may halt development work on Silverlight... I don't know what Silverlight does under the covers, but the event handling language in Flash is Actionscript, which is a dialect of Javascript. So in that sense we're already there.

ConstantineXVI on Nov 9, 2011 [–]

Silverlight is just C# (or theoretically any CLR language) with XAML layouts and a specialized set of libraries.

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