The war's over. Web plugins like Silverlight and Flash have served their purpose well, but the native web is now sufficiently powerful to render web plugins superfluous and irrelevant. What's a Silverlight developer to do? Enter KnockoutJS. Instead of throwing away our existing skills built up through Silverlight, I'll show you how to transfer your skills to the native web via KnockoutJS, using familiar technologies like data binding, MVVM, templates, and commanding support.

2. •Avtex pays me to write code during the day. Then I
do it for free at night.
• Built cool Silverlight stuff for 3M
• Wrote some fun Silverlight projects
• Now a web developer in Y with KnockoutJS
@JudahGabriel

4. I’ve met people in the most
remote areas of the world, living
in straw huts without electricity
or running water, who have
mobile phones.
-Nat Friedman, co-founder of Xamarin

5. I've got a dual-core internet
connected super-computer in my
pocket.
-Scott Hanselman

6. Silverlight can no longer be “WPF Everywhere”

8. Q. What’s wrong with this app?

9. A. Everything.

10. Silverlight is a technology of
the gaps. And those gaps are
shrinking.

11. Silverlight is a technology of
the gaps. And those gaps are
shrinking.

12. Silverlight is a technology of
the gaps. And those gaps are
shrinking.™

13. Silverlight is a technology of
the gaps. And those gaps are
shrinking.™
-Me, just now

14. …and much more.

15. For the future of the web, we need
to get out of plugin prison.
-Vic Gundotra, Google VP of Engineering, Google IO
conference

16. Plugins were created during the
PC era – for PCs and mice. The
mobile era is about low power
devices, touch interfaces and open
web standards – all areas where
plugins fall short.
-Steve Jobs, 2010

17. HTML5 lets web developers create
advanced graphics, typography,
animations and transitions without
relying on third party browser plug-
ins.
-Steve Jobs, 2010

19. For the web to move forward, the
Metro-style browser in Windows 8
is as HTML5-only as possible, and is
plug-in free. The experience that
plug-ins provide today is not a good
match with Metro style browsing
and the modern HTML5 web.
-Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft President

20. We will no longer continue to
develop Flash Player in the browser
to work with new mobile devices.
This will allow us to increase
investment in HTML5, which is
universally supported on major
mobile devices.
-Adobe press release, November 9th, 2011

21. Key components that would have
allowed Silverlight to become a real
cross-platform framework were cut
from releases. Silverlight's fate was
sealed when they started supporting
Windows-only features in the
plugin.
-Miguel deIcaza, founder of Mono and Moonlight

22. Silverlight had a bright future, and
that it could turn to fill an important
void, not only for web
development, but for desktop
development in general. I am very
sad that Microsoft strategy cut the
air supply to Silverlight.
-Miguel deIcaza, founder of Mono and Moonlight

23. We’ve heard developers express
concern about the long term future
of Silverlight for Windows Phone.
Please don’t panic; WinRT in
Windows 8 Phone can be viewed as
a direct evolution from today’s
Silverlight.
-Larry Lieberman, Microsoft, Windows Phone Dev blog

27. Stay in Microsoft land: Move to the web:
WinRT HTML5
The death of web plug-ins

28. Why KnockoutJS? It gives us things like:

31. 3.

32. Try KnockoutJS for yourself, right in
your web browser:
learn.knockoutjs.com