HTML5 vs Silverlight

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HTML5 is many things ...

Ofﬂine / Storage Multimedia

Communication CSS 3

Hardware Access 3D Effects

Semantics Performance

This is not
an overview of
HTML5 Features.

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Platforms
IE 9 (Vista, Win7)
Firefox 3.5+ (WinXP, OSX, Android, Linux)
Chrome (WinXP, OSX, Linux)
Safari (OSX, iOS)
Webkit (Android, etc)

Platforms
IE 9 (Vista, Win7)
Safari (OSX, iOS)

Just about everywhere

Platforms
IE 9 (Vista, Win7)
Safari (OSX, iOS)

Just about everywhere
... to varying degrees.

Platforms
IE 6+ ( WinXP+)
Firefox 2+ (WinXP, OSX)
Chrome (WinXP+)
Safari (OSX)
Windows Phone 7

Platforms
IE 6+ ( WinXP+)
Chrome (WinXP+)
Safari (OSX)
Windows Phone 7

Don’t forget about Moonlight

Platforms
IE 6+ ( WinXP+)
Chrome (WinXP+)
Safari (OSX)
Windows Phone 7

Don’t forget about Moonlight
... even though Novell has.

Storage
Local Storage
// use localStorage for persistent storage
// use sessionStorage for per tab storage
window.localStorage.setItem('value', area.value);
window.sessionStorage.setItem('timestamp', (new Date()).getTime());
var val = window.localStorage.getItem('value');
window.localStorage.removeItem('value');
window.localStorage.clear();

Storage
Local Storage

Source: http://caniuse.com

Storage
ApplicationSettings / Site Settings
// ApplicationSettings are plugin instance specific
// SiteSettings are site (URL) specific
private IsolatedStorageSettings userSettings =
IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings;
private IsolatedStorageSettings siteSettings =
IsolatedStorageSettings.SiteSettings;

userSettings.Add("value", "hello world");
userSettings.Remove("value");
userSettings.Clear();

Storage
Isolated Storage
// GetUserStoreForApplication() - plugin specific
// GetUserStoreForSite() - site (URL) specific
var isf = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();

using (var isfs = new IsolatedStorageFileStream(fileName,
FileMode.Create, isf))
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(isfs))
sw.Write(data);

using (var isfs = new IsolatedStorageFileStream(fileName,
FileMode.Open, isf))
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(isfs))
var allData = sr.ReadToEnd();

Databases
Web SQL Database
var db = openDatabase('exampleDB', '1.0', 'example database', 5 * 1024 * 1024);
db.transaction(function (tx) {
tx.executeSql('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS foo (id unique, text)');
tx.executeSql('INSERT INTO foo (id, text) VALUES (1, "bar")');
tx.executeSql('SELECT * FROM foo', [], function (tx, results) {
var len = results.rows.length, i;
for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
alert(results.rows.item(i).text);
}
});
});

Databases
Web SQL Database


Databases
IndexedDB
var trans = db.transaction(["foo"], IDBTransaction.READ_WRITE, 0);
var store = trans.objectStore("foo");
var request = store.put( {"bar": foobar} );

request.onsuccess = function(e) { alert("Success!" + "rnrn" + e.value); };
request.onerror = function(e) { alert("Error! " + "rnrn" + e.value); };

Databases
IndexedDB


Databases
3rd Party Client-Side Databases for Silverlight

• Sterling - http://sterling.codeplex.com/
• Perst - http://www.mcobject.com/silverlight-demo
• siaqodb - http://siaqodb.com/
• efﬁproz - http://www.efﬁproz.com/
• Ninja Database - http://www.kellermansoftware.com/p-42-ninja-
database-lite.aspx

Ofﬂine
AppCache - Cache Manifest
CACHE MANIFEST
# version 0.0.8
index.html
site.css
jquery-1.4.1.js
emoticon_smile.png
emoticon_unhappy.png

NETWORK:
noncached.html

FALLBACK:
/ offline.html

Ofﬂine
AppCache - Referencing Caching
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html manifest="cache.manifest">
<head><title>Hello AppCache</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Hello AppCache!</h1>
</body>
</html>

Ofﬂine
OnLine / Ofﬂine API
document.body.addEventListener("online", function() { checkOnLineState(); }, false);
document.body.addEventListener("offline", function() { checkOnLineState(); }, false);
checkOnLineState();

function checkOnLineState() {
if (typeof (navigator.onLine) == 'undefined') {
alert("navigator.onLine isn't defined.");
return;
}
if (navigator.onLine) {
alert("You are online.");
} else {
alert("You are online.");
}
}

Ofﬂine
AppCache & onLine API


Ofﬂine
Out-of-Browser (OOB)
• OOB applications run in a separate window and work
regardless of network connectivity.
• Silverlight API gives full control of installation and updates.
• Default Isolated Storage capacity increases from 5 MB to
25 MB
• Web Browser control for OOB applications
• With Elevated Trust you can call COM APIs
• Silverlight 5 introduces p/invoke, multiple windows

Threading
Web Workers
var worker = new Worker("worker.js");
worker.onmessage = function(e){ alert(e.data) };
worker.postMessage("Hello Worker");

worker.js
onmessage = function(e) {
if (e.data === "Hello Worker") {
postMessage("Hello World");
}
};

Threading
Web Workers


Threading
Silverlight BackgroundWorker
var bg = new BackgroundWorker
{
WorkerReportsProgress = true,
WorkerSupportsCancellation = true
};
bg.DoWork += (o, e) =>
{
for (var i = 1; i <= 100; i++)
{
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);
((BackgroundWorker) o).ReportProgress(i);
}
};
bg.ProgressChanged += (o, e) => MessageBox.Show("Working %" + e.ProgressPercentage);
bg.RunWorkerAsync();

Communication
WebSocket API
var ws = new WebSocket("ws://websocket.example.com");
ws.onopen = function(e) { alert("WebSocket connection open"); };
ws.onmessage = function(e) { alert("WebSocket message received: "
+ e.data); };
ws.onclose = function(e) { alert("WebSocket connection closed"); };
ws.postMessage("Hello WebSocket");
ws.disconnect();

Communication
Silverlight & WCF
• Silverlight WCF client supports PollingDuplexHttpBinding
for a simulated duplex communication over HTTP
• Silverlight supports System.Net.Sockets for low level
sockets communication
• Silverlight supports UDP multicast clients over Sockets
• The only thing Silverlight doesn’t support that WebSockets
API does is secure socket communication

Notiﬁcation
Notiﬁcations API
if (window.webkitNotifications.checkPermission() == 0) {
// you can pass any url as a parameter
window.webkitNotifications.createNotification(tweet.picture,
tweet.title, tweet.text).show();
} else {
window.webkitNotifications.requestPermission();
}

Notiﬁcation
Notiﬁcations API


Notiﬁcation
Silverlight NotiﬁcationWindow
if (App.Current.IsRunningOutOfBrowser)
{
var nw = new NotificationWindow();
nw.Content = "Look at me!";
nw.Show(5000); // milliseconds

}

Audio
Audio Tag


Audio
Audio Tag
Browser Ogg mp3 wav
Firefox 3.5+ ✓ ✓
Safari 5+ ✓ ✓
Chrome 6+ ✓ ✓
Opera 10.5+ ✓ ✓
IE 9 ✓ ✓

Audio
MediaElement
<MediaElement x:Name="media" Source="example.mp3"
Width="300" Height="300" />

Audio
MediaElement
Container Codecs
MP3 MP3

ASF WMA Standard & Professional

AAC-LC, HE-AAC v1 (AAC+), HE-AAC v2
MP4
(eAAC+)

Video
Video Tag


Video
Browser Ogg H.264 WebM
Firefox 3.5+ ✓
Firefox 4+ ✓ ✓
Safari 3+ ✓
Chrome 6+ ✓ ✓
Opera 10.5+ ✓ ✓
IE 9 ✓ ✓
iPhone Safari ✓
Android ✓ ✓

Video
MediaElement
<MediaElement x:Name="media" Source="example.wmv"
Width="300" Height="300" />

Video
MediaElement
Container Codecs
ASF WMV & VC-1
MP4 H.264

Also Supports...
• Progressive Download & Windows Media Streaming
• Server Side Play Lists
• Server Logs
• Timeline Markers

Canvas
<canvas id="canvas" width="838" height="220"></canvas>
<script>
var canvasContext = document.getElementById("canvas").getContext("2d");
canvasContext.fillRect(250, 25, 150, 100);

canvasContext.beginPath();
canvasContext.arc(450, 110, 100, Math.PI * 1/2, Math.PI * 3/2);
canvasContext.lineWidth = 15;
canvasContext.lineCap = 'round';
canvasContext.strokeStyle = 'rgba(255, 127, 0, 0.5)';
canvasContext.stroke();
</script>

Canvas
Canvas


Canvas
<Canvas x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White" >
<Rectangle Canvas.Left="250" Canvas.Top="25"
Height="100" Width="150"
Stroke="Black" Fill="Black"/>
<Path Canvas.Left="406" Canvas.Top="10" Height="290" Width="137"
Stroke="#7FFF7F00" Fill="#00FFFFFF" StrokeThickness="15"
StrokeLineJoin="Round" StrokeStartLineCap="Round" StrokeEndLineCap="Round">
<Path.Data>
<PathGeometry>
<PathGeometry.Figures>
<PathFigure>
<PathFigure.Segments>
<ArcSegment Size="50,50" RotationAngle="45" IsLargeArc="True"
SweepDirection="Counterclockwise" Point="0,250"/>
</PathFigure.Segments>
</PathFigure >
</PathGeometry.Figures>
</PathGeometry>
</Path.Data>
</Path>
</Canvas>

Potpourri
• Canvas 3D - WebGL
• SVG (inline, etc)
• Drag & Drop, Drop In, Drag Out
• File System API
• Geolocation API
• Semantic HTML Tags
• New form types (email, date, range, search, tel, color,
number)

Potpourri
• CSS - Selectors, Rounded Corners, Shadows, Transitions,
Tranforms, Animations, etc.
• Webfonts
• Javascript selectors (getElementsByClassName,
querySelector, querySelectorAll)
• data-* attributes
• element.classList
• Browser History API

Potpourri
• XAML
• Languages - C#,Visual Basic.NET, Iron Ruby, Iron Python
• 3D - Silverlight 5 Beta
• GPU Hardware Acceleration
• Devices - Webcam, Microphones
• Printing - Bitmap in SL 4, Postscript vector in SL 5
• COM Interop (Out-of-browser full trust)
• P/Invoke (Out-of-browser full trust in SL 5)

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