Rich media content is about to get richer as Adobe released version 10 of its ubiquitous flash player plugin , a day after Microsoft released Silverlight 2 to the general public. Some of the new features of Flash Player 10 include support for custom filters and effects, advanced audio capabilities, and...
The sheer amount of content on NBCOlympics.com is staggering and a boon for fans. This year the Internet plays a much bigger role in broadcasting content than four years ago. What the casual Joe Schmoe may not realize is that the content is delivered and streamed by Silverlight, instead of the more prevalent...
Silverlight is great. Bar none. But it's even better when you can extend the functionality of your existing AJAX applications, as this ASP.NET video shows. This is when Silverlight goes from "great" to "Michael Jackson back in the 80's."
I stumbled upon a gem of .NET goodness after perusing my exhaustive list of Google Reader XML feeds. Visual WebGui , as I discovered, is an open source rapid application development framework, or RAD, that is purposely tailored for developers to create enterprise AJAX applications in no time flat--literally...
Flash rules the web, with 98 percent desktop penetration in developed markets (apparently desktop users in the heart of the Amazon jungle use SVG or something). In response, as Microsoft almost usually does , they released the Silverlight platform publicly last year to compete with the bevy of other...