news for Windows Mobile 7<\/a> \u2013 it will support Silverlight 3.0 out of the box (although I hope it\u2019s updated to reflect whatever version is current at the time WinMo7 finally ships).<\/p>\nThat still gives phone vendors an opportunity to support Flash before these phones ship though.I\u2019m open to anything decent that brings some consistency to the programming model across phones. Maybe HTML 5 will eventually do that \u2013 when all of the mobile browsers support it (not to mention their desktop counterparts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cool news for Windows Mobile 7 \u2013 it will support Silverlight 3.0 out of the box (although I hope it\u2019s updated to reflect whatever version is current at the time WinMo7 finally ships). That still gives phone vendors an opportunity to support Flash before these phones ship though.I\u2019m open to anything decent that brings some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-dt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":368,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/368","url_meta":{"origin":835,"position":0},"title":"Do we really need another Javascript framework for UI?","date":"June 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"From the web site, RoughlyDrafted magazine, Cocoa for Windows + Flash Killer = SproutCore. 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