Microsoft Download Center and Silverlight

Published 04 December 07 03:46 PM

There is a cool preview download centre up that uses Silverlight:

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http://preview.microsoft.com/downloads/HomePage.aspx 

First glances it has:

  • Menu in top right written in Silverlight
  • The Popular and New Downloads tables are Silverlight
  • The Browse Downloads is definitely the best use with a cool interaction when moving through the alphabet

Does seem very slow but that is probably because it is in Preview and not on full hosting infrastructure (guessing that anyway)

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# Mark Johnston's Blog : Microsoft Download Center and Silverlight said on December 4, 2007 1:26 PM:

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# Test said on December 4, 2007 3:40 PM:

There is a cool preview download centre up that uses Silverlight: http://preview.microsoft.com/downloads/HomePage.aspx

# Rosyna said on December 4, 2007 11:49 PM:

Why wasn't this done using CSS, HTML, and JavaScript? Would seem like a better set of technologies to use.

# markjo said on December 5, 2007 1:00 PM:

Rosyna - good question. I think this is a testing ground for various concepts and I guess they are just testing stuff out. I agree it's not a great use of Silverlight in a simple nav scenario but I could definitely see it being used to do some smart nav (think a file shuffle like the iTunes album art view all with Silverlight in the browser)

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