Hello Silverlight!!!

re: Hello Silverlight!!!

Ben — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:55:43 GMT

Silverlight looks like an interesting technology, and a cool name; let's hope it doesn't go the same way as "Origami"!

> When I see the red bar at the bottom of a YouTube work its way all the way to then end right before I navigate away after only watch the first 1 min I think of all the wasted network bandwidth (and money) must be spent on unwatched video!

I have the opposite opinion on this! I usually wait until the video has completely loaded before watching it... there's absolutely *nothing* worse than watching video online that stutters and can't keep up. Even worse is when you watch part of the video and then the connection dies.

re: Hello Silverlight!!!

commenter — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:30:40 GMT

Totally agree with the commenter above on streaming video. If given the option I'll go with whatever format lets me know the entire movie is downloaded for viewing, as relying on the streaming version keeping up often results an extremely rubbish experience. I am especially wary of any WMV streams, as they seem more likely to degenerate into an audio stream with accompanying slideshow.

re: Hello Silverlight!!!

BradA — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:54:10 GMT

Very good point.. there is certainly a balance here that web site vendors are going to have to face… For some set of customers the immediate response of video is super important… They want to see something as soon as possible. For others they want a high guarantee of experience… Where the entire video is cached locally… It could be there is room for both. It could be that if a user makes an overt decision (checks a box or clicks a button) to down load the whole thing there is a higher probability they will watch the whole thing and no content will be wasted. If the user does nothing then just optimizing for “first experience” might be the way to go…

Thoughts?

Silverlight (formerly wpf/e) announced at NAB

Output from Conversations on Developer Technologies — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:25:46 GMT

I was going to post how excited I am to see a cool product name like Silverlight follow a somewhat confusing

WPF/E deja paso a Microsoft SilverLight

TheDotNetWay.Net — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:26:04 GMT

Microsoft ha cambiado el nombre a WPF/E a partir de ahora disponemos del nuevo Microsoft SilverLight

re: Hello Silverlight!!!

Srdjan — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:39:38 GMT

I'm wondering if we can expect VoIP client integrated within WPF/e (ok, Silverlight)? Make real-time communication integral part of client side development, and you'll bring to masses easy way to create compelling applications, and make browser a universal communication device...

Microsoft has all that is required to bring this on.

What to Expect from IE at MIX07?

IEBlog — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:00:35 GMT

MIX07 is coming up in a week and a half and I wanted to provide an overview of the IE activities at the