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what is windows silverlight?
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I am going o guess that you are actually referring to Microsoft Silverlight (http://silverlight.net/). If I am wrong, feel free to correct me.
Silverlight is product produced by Microsoft (kinda) to compete with Adobe Flash. From the Silverlight home page:
"Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, desktop, and mobile applications when online or offline."
Like Flash and Java, you need to have the Silverlight player downloaded to you computer in order to view web content that uses Silverlight. On Windows, Silverlight supports IE 6 through 8. On a Mac, it supports Safari 3 and 4. On both OSs, it supports Firefox 2 and 3.
From an end user perspective, you will probably not notice much difference between Silverlight and Flash, but a developr has some serious pros and cons to look at for each. For more information, I recomend reading an older article from when Silverlight first came out: http://news.cnet.com/what-is-silverlight-really/.
Silverlight is product produced by Microsoft (kinda) to compete with Adobe Flash. From the Silverlight home page:
"Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, desktop, and mobile applications when online or offline."
Like Flash and Java, you need to have the Silverlight player downloaded to you computer in order to view web content that uses Silverlight. On Windows, Silverlight supports IE 6 through 8. On a Mac, it supports Safari 3 and 4. On both OSs, it supports Firefox 2 and 3.
From an end user perspective, you will probably not notice much difference between Silverlight and Flash, but a developr has some serious pros and cons to look at for each. For more information, I recomend reading an older article from when Silverlight first came out: http://news.cnet.com/what-is-silverlight-really/.
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