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Silverlight vs. Flash

I’ve been a long time hater of Flash as a web-service consumer because of its inability to use any HTTP method other than GET or POST. People revert to stupid URL argument tricks like ?_method=DELETE and actually use a GET or POST, neither of which work if your service layer is actually … truly … RESTful.

Silverlight has the same damn issue. Apparently none of the blog posts I read a WHILE back (2+ yrs) mentioned the fact that Flash, and now Silverlight, use the lowest common denominator for their web request classes…. NPAPI (Gecko/Mozilla Plugin SDK). I’m sure there are good reasons for using the embedded ones, security, re-usability, performance too – but it’s rather annoying!

Why the NPAPI developers don’t augment the API, I have no idea. But at least Silverlight allows for a HTML event to trigger the OpenFileDialog.ShowDialog() without having to do fun invisible overlays.

Silverlight:
http://wilcob.com/Wilco/Silverlight/http-requests-in-silverlight.aspx

Flash:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes_02.html#head34

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/net/FileReference.html
http://theflashblog.com/?p=423

This entry was written by MET , posted on Monday November 24 2008at 07:11 pm , filed under programming and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink . Post a comment below or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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