Halo 3 and Silverlight

SWF to XAML

Christian Nagel's OneNotes — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:31:00 GMT

From time to time I'm asked if there's a SWF to XAML conversion tool. From Tim Sneath's blog: The Converted....

re: Halo 3 and Silverlight

Mike Downey — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:47:02 GMT

Sorry for the delay in responding.

I'm on a Macbook Pro running Safari 2 with Silverlight 1.0 - the version you're offering to standard users (eg, not a beta version). This is a brand new machine.

Not using IE 64-bit (heh).

Thanks,

Mike Downey, Adobe Platform Evangelism

re: Halo 3 and Silverlight

Joshua — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:24:28 GMT

I agree with Kyle, Silverlight looks like a great technology, but it shouldn't be pushed just to read content. That's why we have optional flash enabled pages for Rich Interfaces.

I also love the way they made the Halo 3 Page.

I am just learning how to use Silverlight myself however.

re: Halo 3 and Silverlight

Kyle — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:46:02 GMT

I'm still not so sure this is a great idea. It feels a lot like what people were doing with all-flash sites back in the Flash 4 days when penetration was <80% Right now Silverlight penetration is... about nil. Does it make sense to lock up valuable content (like a Game Guide) into a proprietary format?

I guess I can understand MS will push it's own technology, but putting this info up without any HTML equivalent seems reckless and bully-ish to me. In all honesty, this puts a *negative* light on Silverlight in my eyes.

Here's hoping that someday MS will start pushing Silverlight by creating compelling rich interfaces, and not bullying users into downloading their plugin just to read the content :)

re: Halo 3 and Silverlight

Piotr Puszkiewicz — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:37:20 GMT

Hi Mike,

can you also tell us more about your computer? I would be especially interested in your OS, Browser, and whether or not you had a pre-RC version of Silverlight installed on your computer.

re: Halo 3 and Silverlight

dmurillo — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:25:11 GMT

Mike, are you accessing the Silverlight sites with a 64-bit version of Internet Explorer?

I've run into this problem many times with Flash Player and other controls that aren't allowed to run by the 64-bit version of IE.

re: Halo 3 and Silverlight

Sean Alexander — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:15:47 GMT

Mike- are you running Silverlight 1.0 RTM or a prior release?

re: Halo 3 and Silverlight

Mike Downey — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:44:35 GMT

Interesting. When I visit the game guide that you've put on the Silverlight page it tells me that I need to download Silverlight in order to view the guide - even though I already have it. What's up with that?

Thanks,

Mike Downey, Adobe

re: Halo 3 and Silverlight

Wade — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:11:16 GMT

I don't think it's that odd. Let's be fair -- Halo 3 marketing has probably been in the works for a LONG time. It would be very difficult for them to have adapted so quickly to Silverlight.

re: Halo 3 and Silverlight

dr j — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:39:15 GMT

Thats odd, the entire Halo 3 site is done in Flash (don't see any silverlight) ...

http://www.halo3.com

http://halo3.com/believe/

dr j