re: Microsoft silverlight
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 5:54 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MartinM
(7538 messages posted)
"Silverlight is a powerful development platform
for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, desktop, and mobile
applications when online or offline. Silverlight is a free plug-in powered by the
.NET framework that is compatible across multiple browsers, devices and operating
systems to bring a new level of interactivity wherever the Web works. With more than
100 controls, providing extensive layout and styling options, a powerful set of communication
protocols for fast, smooth customer experiences, robust data access and strong support
for high-definition media, Silverlight helps create visually rich experiences with
backend support for rapid development through the Microsoft Web Platform, Visual
Studio and Expression Studio."
You guessed - I am none the wiser, merely better informed. Only time will tell whether
it actually does anything . . .
It look like a visually-based clone of .net and no, I never truly understood that
either. That's probably why .net never took off . . . anyone have a clue what it
is really (apart from a space-hungry but easily uninstallable nuisance) ? And, no
doubt, Silverlight will follow the same track. I am just waiting for it to appear
among critical updates along with IE8 - which I also neither want nor need.
The geeks who develop these things are so into their subject that they have clearly
completely forgotten there's a non-virtual world out there, using the old, traditional
meanings for words and without a clue what they're talking about :-)
- Written in response to:
- re: Microsoft silverlight (Alan Masterman: Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 4:17 am)
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