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I am wondering: how feasible it would be to start developing a social networking website entirely based on silverlight;

This has been fairly discussed over the years in favor of HTML. Has something changed with silverlight improvements over the years?

What about:

* Performance
  -- active users
  -- technology used, MVVM + MEF (possibility of lags, server memory overflow...)
* Security
  --- WCF Ria Services & EF

What are your thoughts on this subject?

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Flash is a little bit faster than Silverlight, but I'm sure for your purpose it won't matter that much. Bare in mind though, that making an application in Silverlight restricts your possibilities to extend the platform to certain handhelds. I'm thinking of Android and iPhone..

But Yes, you can use Silverlight, to answer to your question.

Steven Ryssaert
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you certainly could build it in silverlight (keeping in mind the restrictions with performance, available platforms, etc.) and then if you want it for mobile clients either provide a set of "mobile" pages or custom apps for the various platforms (android, iPhone, etc)

Muad'Dib
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You could, if you want to exclude all the people who are not willing to install any Microsoft stuff on their non-Windows device. These days, a lot of people are not too keen on Flash either. I run away from most flash pages. I would stick to HTML, and wouldn't be afraid to use HTML5 features if needed.

kevin cline
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