HTML5-Powered VNC Implementation noVNC Lets You Access Remote Systems – Script Junkie – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

HTML5-Powered VNC Implementation noVNC Lets You Access Remote Systems – Script Junkie – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

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SkyDrive drops Silverlight

Yes, another Microsoft website has dropped Silverlight.

Microsoft’s SkyDrive, a web service that provides cloud storage for end user files, has just acquired a revamped user interface – and it is HTML5 based. How can Microsoft expect independent developers to base their future on Silverlight when Microsoft itself is abandoning it like a sinking ship?

Announcing the Web Standards Update – HTML5 Support for the Visual Studio 2010 Editor – Scott Hanselman

Announcing the Web Standards Update – HTML5 Support for the Visual Studio 2010 Editor – Scott Hanselman.

WebGL as a security problem

Researchers from Context Information Systems are warning that the WebGL standard undermines the security concept practised by current operating system versions and offers up new attack surfaces.

The Silverlight Blog – Standards-based web, plug-ins, and Silverlight

All the big Microsoft guys post about the positioning of Silverlight and HTML5

“As part of the continued support for scenarios that require plug-in based capabilities, we will ship a beta of Silverlight 5 at MIX, with some great demos for compelling scenarios. And as we stated in the summary above, we believe Silverlight delivers the richest set of plug-in based capabilities available to developers today, making the choice of Microsoft technologies even more compelling in aggregate. At MIX, we’ll also talk about Windows Phone and the developer experience with Silverlight, XNA, and Visual Studio.”

The Silverlight Blog – Standards-based web, plug-ins, and Silverlight.