World: r3wp

I think that Flash is *currently* better than Silverlight, but Silverlight 
has more *potential* because of the system model and such. It would 
be relatively easy to change the tools around Silverlight and add 
new capabilities to it, but it would be hard to change the entire 
semanitc model and system structure of Flash without breaking all 
Flash code in existence. That is what I mean about more potential.

I was amazed at how well video runs in Silverlight on my Mac. But 
I'd still like to see a separation of video from Flash to get a simpler 
and truly optimized video player.

I'd like to see HTML5 video, and not use Flash or Silverlight for 
video at all.

The ability for either Flash or Silverlight to improve in an open/free 
way, in the areas where they are currently strong - multimedia and 
video - is very limited because of all of the patents on multimedia 
codecs. In other ways, Silverlight has more potentiial right now 
for open/free development because MS actually provides developer 
support to the Mono/Moonlight project.

Of course most people wouldn't let Flash or Silverlight run in their 
browser at all if it wasn't for video sites like YouTube.

with HTML5, would the browser itself provide the video player?

iecanvas.... canvas.... build a UI in the new JS engines on that.... 
let anyone in the game. Dump the schizophrenic CSS + DIV + JS.   
http://ibolmo.com/projects/moocanvas/

Check the demos on that one. 3D cube is nice. And this works cross 
browser...

Now write a VID to that....

With Silverlight is a problem,that maybe it may be used for simple 
GUIs, but not for animations. Here are SWF and XAML versions to compare 
http://theconverted.ca/demo.html

But maybe the XAMLs above are so pure because Silvelight has big 
problems with compatibily between its versions.

what is iecanvas? plain html?

great... another way to eat tons of CPU with "simple" demos. :-)