Need some help getting your head around Silverlight? Check out http://www.silverlight.net. That’s a full blown community site that has samples, screencasts, forums and a whole lot more. It’s amazing how much content there is out there already.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m pretty geeked about Silverlight and am looking forward to being able to factor it into every browser based application that I work on to see where and when it fits.
Billy Hollis calls HTML the COBOL of the web. There’s a lot of truth to that to be honest. CSS helps. AJAX helps more but you really can’t get to a Rich Internet Application (RIA) with these technologies. Silverlight is Microsoft’s answer to that RIA gap.
Some quick facts about Silverlight:
720P HD Video that is downloaded with the Silverlight runtime
Has a .NET Runtime that downloads with it with a subset of of the Base Class Libraries
Silverlight has fantastic streaming support that integrates well with our new Silverlight Streaming offering. More news coming soon.
It runs on Windows, Mac, mobile platforms and more!