And another one: Silverlight 4 Beta1 is out

Maybe symbolic to the general game of catch up that Microsoft is playing with Adobe, today the brand new Silverlight 4 beta was released:

http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta/

And what a round of catch up this is. Things might chance once I have used it for while, but for now I think that everyone of Silverlight's short comings compared to Flash have been answered. Printing, webcam, microphone, support for Chrome - it's all there.

Of course, still missing is a wide spread (90%+) install base of the Silverlight plugin - and the fact that it is no fun developing for Silverlight on a Mac (the applications run fine, but the developing tools are almost non existant). But okay, can't really blame Microsoft for that.

Downloading while writing this and thinking about how on earth I will find the time to check both AIR2.0 and Silverlight 4 out in detail...

Man, I love being a frontend developer.