Future of PivotViewer control and HTML 5 equivalent

Question

As Silverlight's future seems to be quite unsure, does anybody know if the PivotViewer control will still be maintained and updated?

I wish to develop an application based on this amazing control but I am not confident whether it will be maintained or not.

Is there any HTML5 initiative for developing such data visualization behavior?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The short answer is that Silverlight as a whole will be "maintained and updated" for years.

There is so much talk of the death of Silverlight, but it and XAML are still top-tier Microsoft technologies. Nothing should stop you using the PivotViewer control and Silverlight in your application. If, in several years you're still working on the same thing and you feel support is lacking, cross that bridge then and reassess this decision.

Answer 2

I've been working on a HTML5 version of PivotViewer for a while now, you can see it here: http://pivot.lobsterpot.com.au/html5.htm. This first prototype version doesn't have pan or zoom, but I do have a later version in the works that supports pan, zoom and tile templates.

Answer 3

I know this is an old question, but this control has been one of those awesome ones. The lobsterpot control is open sourced on github by openlink: https://github.com/openlink/html5pivotviewer

if you're a budding dev for js, fork and improve :)

Answer 4

There's an HTML5 version of PivotViewer around now by members of the original team that made the Silverlight version. It's sad that there is no WPF and WinRT version of it by Microsoft btw.

see links I've gathered on PivotViewer here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kf7pir9gf0wwdwy/AABmsm5LDcGYoA7UDGH33tTha?dl=0 those were collected during the development of ClipFlair project (http://ClipFlair.net - see http://clipflair.codeplex.com for the source code). Choose the "Gallery" option to see Silverlight PivotViewer in use there inside a zoomable floating window container that can host other components too along with it.