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Oct 06

The application is implemented based on 3D Text Space. You will notice that the number of characters displayed in the Silverlight version is much less than that in Flash. It’s because Text Rendering in Silverlight is CPU intensive and too many TextBlock objects will make the application crash.

I think there are some other ways to increase the performance of using TextBlock in Silverlight. However, I didn’t have any idea yet. If you have have any suggestions, please feel free to share with me.

Vote for this sample

Flash is Better! (688 votes)
Silverlight is Better? (635 votes)

Comparison

Flash implementation: 80 minutes(Implemented First)

Silverlight implementation: 50 minutes

Source codes

Flash

Silverlight

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13 Responses to “Flash vs Silverlight: Spiral Text”

  1. Francis Lukesh Says:

    I don’t understand how Silverlight is getting all the votes. It is clearly rendering *fewer* characters at a *slower* framerate. How is that better?

  2. yuku Says:

    This is a website for newbie Silverlight developers who want to try it (i.e. fanboys). That’s why almost everytime they come and click repeatedly on the “Make Silverlight Larger” link. Flash developers are already settled with what they have.

  3. Boubalou Says:

    Well said yuku.

    I think you hit it on the nail.

    Silverlight is like all choppy and slow which slow down my browser like hell.

  4. kafka Says:

    I wonder who really needs comparisons like these, It would be amazing to think that silverlight could overtake adobe and macromedia’s 15 years of development. Flash is far better anyway, easier to develop to and by now, has far better dev support.

  5. admin Says:

    I understand your concern on what is the meaing of the voting.

    Actually, i don’t really intended to get any meaning from the voting. It’s really just for fun and let all of you to vote what you like (no matter what’s the reason behind.)

  6. Dan Says:

    As a C# guy Silverlight appeals to me more, but this article is biased. To make things worse, when I initially clicked on the Silverlight example it only refreshed when i scrolled the page, while the Flash one was fine.

    My girlfriends also been moaning about the Silverlight player itv.com use for their catchup, it was very unresponsive in Firefox, so she switched to IE which was better, but she had no ability fast forward pause or rewind, which is simplistic controls nowadays. These issues a hopefully more down to ITV than Silverlight. ITV vs BBC iPlayer doesn’t really do Silverlight much justice. Here’s hoping it gets better.

  7. Silverlight Cream for October 06, 2008 -- #389 Says:

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  8. Anand Ranjan Says:

    Francis Lukesh said “I don’t understand how Silverlight is getting all the votes. It is clearly rendering *fewer* characters at a *slower* framerate. How is that better?”

    Hey Francis,

    Microsoft is not going to compare its product(Silverlight) with Adobe(Flash)..Its u and me who r comparing, b’cos in current senario we developer needs only such application which will resolve our problem or fulfill all the requirements without any specialization( like Flash….Thats why they comes under Multimedia team),

    We all developers have to appericiate Microsoft for providing us such a tool like Silverlight which give us more respect and satisfaction in Development area where we are.I understand why u r that much of worry…. :) The main problem for all flash workers is : If a developer is able to work as a Multimedia person then naturally its a difficult time for a multimedia person to safe his position(only through adding some action scripts… no one will be king).

    Never Mind…

    Cheers by Anand Ranjan

  9. birdwing Says:

    From what i’ve seen of both programs.

    Flash and silverlight have the same quality rendering of bmp images, and silverlight has a higher default framerate, which means its going to be smoother, but take up more processing power.

    However Flash is still the vector king, and font is vector based.

    This test proves that, and since I beleive the future of graphics lies in vector objects. Flash gets my vote.

  10. S.Lee Says:

    Do you want true??

    This’s answer of here..

    http://www.hoons.kr/Board.aspx?Name=mysilverlight&Mode=2&BoardIdx=18191&Key=&Value=

  11. William Says:

    I am developer. The flash example runs better. That is not a real world usage for silverlight. It is cetarinly unfair to do this comparison. Silverlight is used to build applications for websites, or websites entirely build upon it. Silverlight is not to be used to do fancy animations like the above.

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  13. admin Says:

    William,

    Thanks for the suggestion. You are right that Silverlight may not be target for this.

    Actually, my focus is let programmer to pick the best technology for their needs.

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