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<blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5910961" data-attributes="member: 21076">I could believe there was less work in a conversion. I am not that familiar with the back end to comment much on what may or may not have been required in conversion.The thing is, the path of least resistance is not always the best choice. When looking at changing technologies there is a myriad of other factors to consider. Sometimes the right choice results in more work up front, but a better solution that is more flexible in the long run. Technology evolves quickly and decisions on platform need to take that into account.True, the tablet increase has largely been a growing phenomenon over the past couple of years. Unfortunately by choices made earlier those choices have really impacted them as technology changed. Now the path of least resistance doesn't sound so good.Those Silverlight numbers sound wrong, especially for the time the decision to go with Silverlight would have been made. Maybe they meant Silverlight was an option on 97% of the devices out there though not necessarily already installed?Articles from 1st/2nd quarter of 2010 seem to indicate around a 60% install base of Internet connected devices for Silverlight.A web based HTML5 app would not have required people to re-download applications either. And even for apps that do need patching, that can always be done through incremental patching to reduce download size.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IronWolf, post: 5910961, member: 21076"] I could believe there was less work in a conversion. I am not that familiar with the back end to comment much on what may or may not have been required in conversion. The thing is, the path of least resistance is not always the best choice. When looking at changing technologies there is a myriad of other factors to consider. Sometimes the right choice results in more work up front, but a better solution that is more flexible in the long run. Technology evolves quickly and decisions on platform need to take that into account. True, the tablet increase has largely been a growing phenomenon over the past couple of years. Unfortunately by choices made earlier those choices have really impacted them as technology changed. Now the path of least resistance doesn't sound so good. Those Silverlight numbers sound wrong, especially for the time the decision to go with Silverlight would have been made. Maybe they meant Silverlight was an option on 97% of the devices out there though not necessarily already installed? Articles from 1st/2nd quarter of 2010 seem to indicate around a 60% install base of Internet connected devices for Silverlight. A web based HTML5 app would not have required people to re-download applications either. And even for apps that do need patching, that can always be done through incremental patching to reduce download size. [/QUOTE]

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