Microsoft
Silverlight is a browser plugin that allows web applications to be developed with features that characterize a rich internet application: animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback.
Silverlight competes with products such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Adobe Shockwave,
Java FX, and Apple QuickTime. Version 2.0 brought improved interactivity and allows developers to use
.NET languages and development tools when authoring
Silverlight applications.
Silverlight provides a retained mode graphics system, similar to
WPF and integrates multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity into a single runtime. It is being designed to work in concert with XAML and is scriptable with JavaScript. XAML can be used for marking up the vector graphics and animations. Textual content created with
Silverlight would be more searchable and indexable than that created with
Flash as it is not compiled, but represented as text (XAML).
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