I was recently made aware of HTML5's canvas element and I believe that this could render Silverlight, JavaFX and Flex obsolete. The "canvas" tag allows you to embed script based graphics, usually JavaScript, in your page. Expect the leading Ajax frameworks, like JQuery and GWT, to provide programmer friendly APIs for canvas based visualizations.

A discription of what was in marina and what can be included in next iteration.

One of the big criticisms leveled at JavaFX presently is its lack of controls (or components if you come from the Swing world). This was addressed to some degree in JavaFX 1.2, but there are still many controls missing, and some of the controls in the latest release have relatively basic API’s at this point. Certainly this will improve in future releases, but I thought I’d try to simply explain the process you need to go through to build your own controls. Who knows, you might be able to sell them if you get them good enough.

Major browser vendors have been unable to agree on an encoding format they will support in their products, forcing the W3C to drop audio and video codecs from HTML 5, the forthcoming W3C spec that has been viewed as a threat to Flash, Silverlight, and similar technologies.

This is the first post in a series to demonstrate how to use the standard MSFT technologies to implement a CRUD data application in Silverlight . This post is beginners stuff - there’s nothing advanced here.

Another new feature is SVG effects for HTML, including masking, filtering and clipping. The point I made in the review is that this is a shot at Adobe as well as Microsoft. Although it is a long way from a viable alternative to Flash for now, the direction is clear.

Now it’s time to take part in another poll: Which Flash version do you use? CS4 has many new features but as far as I know not many of developers has made the switch already. I’m use Flash CS4 but I don’t really use the new features.

In this post I shared my experience about my use of javafx platform --in a friendly timeline,