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MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT
Introduction
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIA) for the Web. Silverlight unifies the capabilities of the server, the Web, and the desktop, of managed code and dynamic languages, of declarative and traditional programming, and the power of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
Silverlight sits in that interesting place between desktop applications and browser applications. In many ways, it’s like a little traditional desktop application embedded in HTML. Of course, the same can be said of many JavaScript, AJAX applications themselves modeled on the code-on-the-client desktop application paradigm.
It is compatible with multiple web browsers used on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. Mobile devices, starting with Windows Phone 7 and Symbian (Series 60) phones, are likely to become supported soon.
A free software implementation named Moonlight, developed by Novell in cooperation with Microsoft, is available to bring most Silverlight functionality to Linux, FreeBSD and other open source platforms.