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This week jQuery makes two huge announcements, Fiat uses AIR to work with drivers, Silverlight plays Flash Video, YUI releases a new milestone, the Flash Player learns to talk to C, and much more all on this week's Weekly RIA RoundUp from InsideRIA.

With the imminent release of Silverlight 2.0, developers and Web designers, particularly those already working in Microsoft IT environments, will have the first viable alternative technology to Adobe Flash for building rich Internet applications, analysts and developers said.

Interesting that the comparison is to Flash instead of Flex.

I’m traveling so I wasn’t able to chime in on the availability of a Silverlight release candidate. One of the most important thing for developers is that it sounds like this will be the last round of API tweaks so there will be no more updating your applications.

Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe talks with eWEEK about open-sourcing Flash, the new Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), mobile technology and more. Lynch also talks of competing with Microsoft Silverlight and Expression and possibly with Google Chrome.

Microsoft held reMIX UK last week in Brighton which as others have noted was an addendum to the MIX conference in Las Vegas which unfortunately came in the shadow of PDC where we should probably see a Silverlight 2 release as well as a bunch of other goodies from Microsoft.

One of the most requested resources we're asked for, is tutorials showing how to use Flash skills when creating Silverlight projects. Friday we launched Project Rosetta, which is a new site dedicated to helping designers and developers take advantage of their existing skills.

During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, we spent time in articles and our podcast talking about NBCOlympics.com and its use of Silverlight. Several readers and interviewees commented on both the pros and cons of Silverlight, but Microsoft had a somewhat captive audience in the United States for its video and interactive content player.

Systeme de Deepzoom utilisant silverlight

This week brought the death of ECMAScript 4 as we know it, a preview release of YUI 3, a behind the scenes look at NBC's online olympics coverage, and did we mention ECMAScript 4 (it was worth mentioning twice)?

A deep explanation incl. underlying architecture

"But fighting the web is like holding back the ocean; it will route around you or it will wear you down, but will never go away, and it will never tire or give up. Yet in spite of the futility of fighting the web, Silverlight is being positioned in...