The Local JavaScript API for Local People

I was giving a presentation at an ESRI gathering hosted in reading at Microsoft this week, talking about all things Silverlight and MapIt, and very little unsurprisingly about the Flex API. During a presentation about the Web API’s I mentioned JavaScript and Silverlight as two offerings that whilst can do similar things, need to be considered carefully in relation to the audience in questioning and the tasks they wish to perform. Now I like the Silverlight API and as I mentioned in the talk it can really allow for the avoidance of browser support pain by abstracting away the layer between your...