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  • HTML5 vs Flash - The Saga Continues

    Ian Alderson 12:58 pm on 30th April, 2010 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    Yesterday there were a couple of important posts that have reignited the fire under the HTML5 vs Flash debate. The first was Thoughts On Flash from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The second was the riposte from Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, via Alan Murray’s exclusive interview, Highlights: The Journal’s Exclusive Interview With Adobe CEO.

    Unsurprisingly these views have propagated around the Internet like wildfire. For a long while there have been claims and counter claims about HTML5 signalling the death of Flash, however this is the first time that someone in Jobs’ position has taken such a firm position.

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  • Silverlight 4 - Is it what banks want?

    Michael Poston 9:23 am on 19th April, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    Where is Microsoft going with Silverlight? There is no ambiguity in Microsoft’s intentions to contend with AJAX and Adobe Flash in the RIA space; Friday’s Silverlight 4 release includes me-too features such as enhanced video streaming capabilities aimed at internet broadcasters, better device handling including web-cam, microphone, mouse wheel and right-click support, together with enhanced animation capabilities such as hardware accelerated transforms and rotations.  

    Yet the capital markets want more than a Microsoft version of Flash, and fulfilling their additional business requirements is where Silverlight 4 looks to shine.

    When banks build single-dealer portals they need an application framework that leverages existing skills so that client offerings can be created quickly, deployed easily, and rolled out to clients en masse. The integration and functional requirements on application frameworks across pre-trade, deal-capture and post-trade are varied and not usually completely solved by any single vendor implementation or framework.

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  • Interesting stuff coming out of MIX10

    Patrick Myles 11:55 am on 17th March, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Microsoft’s MIX10 Developers and Designers conference is currently running in Las Vegas. Sadly I’m not attending as it sounds like lots of fun…

    There has been lots of buzz and some really interesting bits coming out so far including Silverlight 4 RC, Internet Explorer 9 preview (with HTML5 and CSS3 etc.), Windows phone information, etc.

    Scott Hanselman has posted a great roundup of the announcements and keynotes.

     

  • Silverlight and Flex versus Ajax

    Phil Leggetter 12:32 pm on 21st December, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    On November 10th Caplin and Finextra sponsored a webcast discussing issues surrounding single-dealer portals in capital markets. We have the highlights and while much of the discussion was purely business focused, part III discusses the emergence of Ajax versus Flex and Silverlight. It’s a very interesting topic and there’s been much debate over which RIA technology will dominate with various ways of looking at what determines technology choice.

    From a business point of view the conversation gets interesting when Kevin Bourne asks “do you not want to see a point where people want 100% of the choice but all out of the can with a library of applications that they can then tailor much more specifically to what they want to deliver to their clients?”

    You can see the other highlight videos on the Caplin Systems You Tube Channel.

    You can also download a full transcript of the event:
    Buyers Market – Single Dealer Portals and Courting the Online Client

     

  • Streamlink for Silverlight for Mobile

    Phil Leggetter 5:10 pm on 4th August, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    With the recent release of Caplin’s Streamlink for Silverlight it’s exciting to find out that Microsoft plan to release a Silverlight for Mobile devices.

    The goal of Silverlight is to provide a consistent experience across desktop and mobile phones. Developers will be able to easily optimize Silverlight applications for mobile form factors or run existing Silverlight applications on mobile phones.

    The great thing about this release is that any existing Silverlight applications should work on any mobile device with Silverlight installed. The question about this is that if you design a user interface for a desktop browser how will it fit on a windows mobile browser? Well, Microsoft plan to give developers the ability to “optimize Silverlight applications for mobile form factors” which sounds like they will give us a way of dealing with the obvious UI differences between desktop and mobile platforms, as well as the underlying runtime issues.

    We’ve already blogged about what impact Silverlight may have on single dealer portals. I’m really excited to see what developers can do using StreamLink for Silverlight to enable the real-time web on a windows mobile device. What opportunities might Streamlink for Silverlight Mobile enable?

    Silverlight for Mobile

    Silverlight for Mobile

    Read the Silverlight for Mobile FAQ for more information.

     

  • Silverlight for single dealer portals?

    Patrick Myles 11:35 am on 9th June, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Could it be that the time for Silverlight in finance has come? Does Adobe Flex solve any of the complexities of building web applications? Where does Caplin Trader fit in to this landscape? These are all questions that I am hearing (and asking) increasingly at the moment – so here’s how I see it…

    There has been a big push from Adobe towards using Flex (and to a lesser extent LiveCycle Data Services – their messaging product) for trading portals and you can certainly build a flashy offering, as can be seen in the recent launch of Morgan Stanley’s Matrix.

    But questions still remain over the ease of development and deployment of such a large-scale enterprise application, and though the Flex Builder seems to make this easier, digging beneath the surface can make for a frustrating experience, as Alex Vandeberg’s excellent analysis recently described.

    Could Silverlight be an answer to this?

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