Flash vs Silverlight

As well as having a nice logo,Silverlight is “cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications”. Basically, it’s an easy to use plug-in that allows developers to easily create full-blown applications / media inside a browser.
The reason for this post?
Jesse Ezell, a long-timeFlash enthusiast (who has even written an SDK for Flash in the past), has a very interesting and well structured post claiming thatFlash is dead on his blog - and I believe him.  I don’t want to go through the details because Jesse does it very well and I’m not a Flash expert like he is, but here’s a summary illustrating which one is stronger in certain areas:
Feature Flash Silverlight Winner
Animation Frame-based.
Simple transformation of matrices SupportsWPF. Define start and end and it will figure out how to get there Silverlight
Shapes Binary Shape records Text-based XAML Silverlight
Text Player doesn’t understand TFF files Allows you to embed true font information inside projects Silverlight
Vide/Audio Proprietary mutilation of H.263 Uses industry standard VC-1 codec as well as WMV/WMA and even DRM Silverlight
Scripting ActionScript is powerful but there are no IDEs for creating ActionScript-based desktop applications Can resue C# classes on the server-side, which means the logic only has to be written once, whereas ActionScript requires it on the server and client machine Silverlight
Tools Flash development environments The most used environment on the plane, Visual Studio Silverlight
Silverlight doesn’t run on Linux, but it does run on Mac OS. I don’t think that will put anyone off though.  It might take years to happen, but if Adobe don’t get their act together, Microsoft are going to steal the show - and I’m glad.
Perhaps this is all a bit one-sided? But that doesn’t really matter. What matters most is the speed and cost of development along with the number of developers. Silverlight wins again.