Microsoft Says Silverlight Still Excels Where HTML5 Drops Off

Although Microsoft is invested in HTML5 technologies and is building its desktop browsers on HTML5, the company is saying that its multimedia-rch Silverlight plugin can take the web into deeper places than HTML5. Silverlight technology, like Flash, has not received a lot of attention lately with the rising impetus behind HTML5, but for Microsoft, Silverlight still is able to extend the web far beyond what HTML5 is capable of.
According to Brad Becker of Microsoft, “On the Web, the purpose of Silverlight has never been to replace HTML; it’s to do the things that HTML (and other technologies) couldn’t in a way that was easy for developers to tap into. Microsoft remains committed to using Silverlight to extend the Web by enabling scenarios that HTML doesn’t cover.”

