subject: Benefits Of Silverlight In Current Age. [print this page] What is Silverlight? What is Silverlight?
Silverlight is a powerful development tool for designing and architecting highly engaging and interactive user experiences for Web, Desktop and Mobile applications. Silverlight is a free plug-in powered by the .NET framework which is compatible with multiple browsers, devices and operating systems
Silverlight Vs Flash
Ever since the web has come into existence, all web based animations have been pretty much dominated by Flash of Adobe. But with the advent of Microsoft Silverlight there has been a new dimension to creating animations. Silverlight uses the WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) animation model which is primarily based on time rather than on the number of frames and thus helps users in making the process lesser time consuming
Silverlight uses XAML (Extensible Application Markup language). When it comes to compatibility of video formats, Silverlight has a much upper edge over flash because it uses standard VC-1 codec that by default supports the WMA and WMV formats of Microsoft. Since most of the end users in the world are hooked on to the windows operating systems, Silverlight becomes the obvious choice
Benefits of using Silverlight
1.Silverlight has the biggest advantage over other existing RIA technologies like Flash and Flex in terms of making the content availability to search engines. Most of the RIA technologies hide the content from search engine crawlers whereas Silverlight allows crawlers to read the content
2.Applications created using Silverlight are highly compatible with all the operating systems including Windows, Linux and Mac. Similarly these applications have high cross browser compatibility that includes IE, Firefox or Google Chrome.
3.Silverlight streams Video / Audio and provides a scalability of videos from mobile device to 720 HDTV Video modes. This makes it a preferred choice to build applications that are video oriented, especially for e-learning applications and CBTs.
4.Silverlight helps immensely in delivering the necessary business functionality through web based applications with an efficient and modern User Interface while securely interacting with desktop files, data and applications such as Microsoft Office.
