I’m about to start a new project that is gonna be a composition of a LOB and a cloud-service.
I was thinking about Silverlight, but it looks like a dead technology to me, besides it requires a plugin.
I like the design of Windows-Azure, and I was wondering if there are any well-known and efficient methods I should be aware of before starting out a Fluid-UI that is totally user responsive.
There are plenty of them… most notable are Twitter Bootstrap (twitter.github.com/bootstrap) and Foundation (foundation.zurb.com).
Both allow easy fluid layouts and come with bundles of extra features and components that you can use!
HTML 5 and Javascript are a safe bet when it comes to UI at the moment, I would avoid plugins like Silverlight as I presume the point of making your UI fluid is the cross device aspect which is kind of defunked immediately with plugins like Flash and Silverlight.