A Web-based digital video technology by Microsoft, codename "WPF/E".
Silverlight is a cross-
browser, cross-
platform
plug-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.
