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I think it will take time. I'm honestly not familiar with Silverlight and JavaFX, but matching AS3's capabilities(OOP, drawing API, Loader classes, filters, tweening engines, particle systems, 3D) and the flash 9 browser plugin's penetration isn't trivial.

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I'm honestly not familiar with Silverlight and JavaFX, but matching AS3's capabilities of OOP...

Um, Silverlight and JavaFX have .Net and Java inside, respectively. They don't have to work to "match" OOP, they bring pre-existing OOP to the party. With extensive general-purpose class libraries.

I don't know anything about JavaFX, but Silverlight also brings pre-existing XAML, which already has drawing and animation classes. And possibly "loader classes" and "filters", I'm not sure what you mean by those).

I think you misunderstood; I didn't mean that Silverlight and JavaFX have to work to match as3/flash9, but that HTML 5/JS do.

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