Silverlight.js is now available for download on MSDN Code Gallery via http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/silverlightjs . Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2 Web sites can use this updated file to add support for Firefox 3 and to enable new features such as...

The Silverlight.js file was updated with several important improvements in the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 SDK . These improvements were focused on two key areas: better experiences out-of-the-box for end users and easier customization of those experiences for...

The Silverlight 2 installation/instantiation model promotes the use of the Silverlight <object> tag template. In my post Instantiating Silverlight: HTML vs. Script I mentioned that this template was designed to meet five criteria: be backwards-compatible...

Many Silverlight developers have noticed a rather fundamental change between the Silverlight installation/instantiation models in Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2.0. Silverlight 1.0 relied on a javascript helper file, Silverlight.js, to provide the installation...

Lots of folks are starting to notice that changes between Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 are causing failures in the isInstalled function used in older Silverlight.js files. Since the Silverlight.createObject function uses isInstalled, this results in Silverlight...

Silverlight 2 changes the default instantiation model of the Silverlight control from Silverlight.js to the <object> tag. This change makes it seem that Automatically Starting Silverlight on Install requires rewriting our instantiation code and...

In my recent post entitled Automatically Start Silverlight on Install I discussed a method for starting Silverlight once it is installed without any user interaction. The method discussed in that post relied on Silverlight.js, the helper file used for...

The last step of the Silverlight installer is to ask the user to restart or refresh their browser. This approach forces the browser to re-evaluate the page's Silverlight instantiation logic once the control is installed. In the case of non-IE browsers...