JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 Could be the New Silverlight Slash De-Facto RIA Replacement

Critics say HTML5 will destroy Silverlight but this is only a half-truth.

Many Silverlight aficionados will not change the good habits they have learned writing MVVM applications for the web, and may instead adapt their skills to new JavaScript/HTML5 frameworks that borrow style and structure from the Silverlight world. So Silverlight will still live, even when all the Silverlight applications are gone.

Now the web developer must face the necessity to be familiar with at least one JavaScript framework such as Angular or Knockout. JavaScript graphics libraries such as Raphael and Bonsai, too, will become useful.

As an example of "Silverlight-similarity" amongst these frameworks, read about how data binding is done in Angular, to transform HTML and make it more XAML-istic.