Flash vs. Silverlight
flash, silverlight
Solution
having had to make the call between silverlight and flash recently for a very intense interactive component, i had to go with flash. and for one reason: online support. If i have a problem building something in flash, chances are pretty good that I'll find help somewhere online from someone thats overcome the same issue. And with Silverlight being new and still fresh from beta iterations, finding that same volume of help is unlikely (at least right now.) In the end, my Flash app was pretty complicated and I still had quite a few issues that I was unable to find help for and just had to dig through api's and try a few things out. Had I gone with Silverlight instead, I would have been desperately idle. dont get me wrong, i'm dying to jump into silverlight and I'd love to convert my flash app to SL someday. I just need the online community/forum presence to grow. And it will. I'm excited to see where Silverlight will go.
Problem
We are building a training website where we need to track viewers watching videos and store detailed info about the viewing (when they paused, if they watched the whole video etc) What should we consider when deciding between the two technologies? I forgot to add. This is for an in house app. We have complete control over the environment. If it this was for a public application I would definitely go with Flash. I'm just looking for technical advantages of one over the other from someone who has used both.