Did you ever compared client-side RIA frameworks? Alexey Gavrilov has written a great test to directly compare performance: Silverlight (WPF/e) vs. DHTML vs. Flash (Flex) vs. WPF vs Apollo vs. Java (Swing):

"The goal of this test is to directly compare performance of different RIA frameworks / approaches in different browsers. The test, which implements simple 2D animation demo, was initially created in DHTML, then ported to Silverlight (WPF/e), Flex and WPF (XBAP). The code used in DHTML, Silverlight (WPF/e) and Flex is essentially the same while for XBAP demo it was ported to C#."

Here are the current test pages:

• DHTML
• Silverlight (JavaScript)
• Silverlight (CLR)
• Flash (Flex)
• Flash (Flex) with cacheAsBitmap
• WPF
• Java (Swing)
• Flex Apollo app
• HTML Apollo app

Of course, Alexey is offering all examples as source code download, great work!

You may also have a look at the cool Silverlight 3D demo Silverlight 1.1 3D demo.

2 Comments

• commenter said Tuesday, June 5, 2007 4:37:27 PM

  Silverlight (CLR) is way ahead of the competition on my machine. But the 3D demo doesnt work. :(

• Michael Schwarz said Tuesday, June 5, 2007 4:56:17 PM

  Thank you for the comment, I have replaced the link with the correct one! http://bubblemark.com/3d/silverlight1.1.htm Regards, Michael