- Visit http://www. for more information, downloads, samples, etc.
- Silverlight is a browser plug-in that runs on IE, Firefox and Safari - Windows and Macs
- Silverlight is a vector rending engine that supports an upward compatible 2D subset of WPF graphic description language XAML
- Silverlight has built in media support for wmv, wma, mp3, jpeg and png files on both windows and MAC with a few lines of code and WITHOUT media player
- The 1.0 Version of Silverlight supports javascript client side scripting in a download a little over 1 mega byte.
- Version 1.1 of Silverlight will contain a subset of the CLR allowing client programming with any .net language (yes, Mac too)
- From a security standpoint, Silverlight runs in the context of the browser and does not have full access to the client machine.
- There will be a DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) add on for Silverlight allowing creating of the client side dynamic language of your choice.
- WPF and Silverlight allows even a video to be used as a paint brush texture so you can "paint" items with video.
- Using VB.NET or C# instead of JavaScript on the client can be up to 1000 times faster.
- Silverlight allows you to progressively play media content from any server or you can point to a streaming server.
- Silverlight can work from any server, windows or linux, IIS or Apache.
- Silverlight allows you to blend html, ajax and vector graphics.
- Silverlight supports hi-def (720p) full screen video.
- Version 1.1 of Silverlight will support JSON allowing automatic marshalling of .NET datatypes to/from javascript.
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