Microsoft Silverlight for Windows 4.0.51204

rodgerballard

Reviewing 4.0.51204 (Dec 16, 2010)

@soldier1st: not entirely true ...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb404700(v=VS.95).aspx

"It is a cross-browser, cross-platform technology. It runs in all popular Web browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and on Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X."

For the Linux crowd there is (with limitations in regard to protection):

http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight

As to it being good or bad. My opinion is it gets the job done. I would rather see more standards based approaches when and where possible using technologies like these only when appropriate but I felt the need to provide accurate info.

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