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[_] Microsoft introduces Silverlight; Adobe wet themselves?

Rick Hurst rick.hurst at gmail.com
Wed May 2 12:37:36 BST 2007

On 5/2/07, Pete Fairhurst <pete.fairhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone else been reading about Microsoft's new Rich Internet Application
> framework, Silverlight?  TechCrunch has an in-depth - if badly written -
> review of the recent unveiling at Mix07:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2xk9tg
>
> The proof will certainly be in the pudding, but on paper (yes... I know)
> it's very, very impressive.

I downloaded the plug-in last night for my mac - does seem very
promising as a media in web browser mechanism - what flash wants to
be. I particularly liked the promise that you can interact with
AJAX/DOM stuff (according to the marketing spiel). It's going to take
a while to become ubiquitous though..

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Rick Hurst, Web developer, Bristol, England
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