Silverlight futures and HTML 5

Microsoft's Mix'11 event was again full of web goodness, including things like Silverlight 5 beta, HTML 5 and Windows Phone developer things.

Many developers are probably thinking at this point, whether HTML 5 or Silverlight should be the way to go. My current thinking about these two technologies is this: both (once fully materialized) can implement similar applications on the lower end, but if you need high-end functionality and great integration with the Windows operating system, then Silverlight is probably the way to go.

HTML 5 on the other hand could become a lower-end standard for many different applications, both on the web, desktops and mobile. If properly implementedby vendors and manufacturers, especially consumer application could be well implemented with HTML 5. Enterprise applications probably are better server with Silverlight, if not other more desktop oriented technologies like WPF.