Microsoft® Silverlight" is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of
.NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.
Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications.
Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows.
Because
Windows Media Video 9 is an implementation of the SMPTE VC-1 standard,
Silverlight also supports VC-1 video, though still only in an ASF file format.and With version 2.0, the programming logic can be written in any
.NET language, including some common dynamic programming languages like Ruby and Python.