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Silverlight
Last modified: Friday, April 20, 2007
A Web-based digital video technology by Microsoft, codename "WPF/E".
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platformplug-in for delivering media and
rich interactive applications for
the Web. The Silverlight browser plug-in is freely available for all major browsers
including Mozilla Firefox, Apple'a Safari and Windows
Internet Explorer running on the Macintosh
or Microsoft Windows. It's a
competitor product to both the Adobe Macromedia Flash
player and Apple QuickTime player.
Silverlight is based on the Microsoft .NET
Framework and can be integrated with existing Web infrastructure and
applications, including Apache and
PHP, JavaScript and
XHTML on the client. Using Silverlight, designers are
able to prepare media for encoding and distribution,
and create W3C standards-compliant sites.
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