Re: MacBook Pro & Silverlight Question

In article <260120092320326161%star@xxxxxxx>, Davoud <star@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Davoud:
The best place I have found for Silverlight info is
<http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/>.

jt august:
OK, I looked at the site, and I still don't really understand what it
is. Best I can surmise is that it is another plug in support language,
like flash or java or other nonsuch. Again, is this accurate or am I
still missing something?

jt - the ever confused

Yes, it's a means of building interactive content on the Web.

Here are two examples:

1) Microsoft press release, January 16, 2009: "WASHINGTON, Jan. 16
/PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that the Presidential
Inaugural Committee (PIC) has selected the company's Silverlight
technology to enable live and on-demand video streaming of the official
inauguration swearing-in ceremony on the PIC Web site at
http://www.pic2009.org.";

2) New York Times, May 22, 2008: "Please note that Times Reader for the
Mac uses the Silverlight plugin. The installation process will prompt
you to install Silverlight if you do not already have it on your
computer.

"We hope you enjoy the enhanced reading experience and the ability to
read The Times while offline..."

Why not Flash, you ask? I don't know. The evidence is, however, that MS
is successfully pushing this technology and that not having it will
limit what you can do on-line. The same could be said for any browser
plug in, however, including Flash, QuickTime and Real.

Well, except Quicktime supports open formats like MPEG...

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