Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience

Silverlight Detection and Installation

Steven Smith — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:40:52 GMT

Tim Sneath just posted some tips for optimizing the Silverlight install experience for your site's end

re: Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience

RedDog — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:55:26 GMT

Thank you. Thank you. Any help with that new user experience is apprecieated. I feel like I'm constantly explaining the steps to new users - who have, of course, been trained not to download/install anything from the net. This really needs to be as smooth as the Flash Installer.

(Hope Microsoft is looking very seriously at this experience, which is so far...bad. ...or even putting it into the microsoft updates <crossing fingers>)

This experience is EXACTLY why we went BACK to our old website.

re: Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience

tims — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:13:23 GMT

Hi RedDog, appreciate the mail. If you'd like to contact me offline via the email link at the top of the page, I'd be pleased to arrange for some direct help with anything you're struggling with. We don't want this to be a hard process. Incidentally, I'd be interested in your experiences with the Flash installer if you uninstall the Flash runtime from your machine - I'm not sure you'd necessarily find it any better... Tim

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Kurt Brockett — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:22:13 GMT

Thanks Tim! I know in a post a few days back you referenced having this type of flexibiilty in the install experience. I'm glad to see you follow it up with some technical direction on how to get this done.

We've recently looked at doing this a few different ways for some content on blendables.com and I'm happy to see a guide to help choose the right approach.

Thanks,

Kurt

Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience

Elan Hasson's Favorite Blogs — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:52:03 GMT

One of the things that is important to think about when you start using Silverlight in your sites/applications

re: Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience

Andrew Davey — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:54:53 GMT

Thanks for the download.

Any reason this has to be a full blown MSI and not just a ZIP file?!

I hate my "Add or Remove Programs" list getting filled up with MSDN docs which are clearly NOT programs :(

re: Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience

Thomas Watson — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:40:30 GMT

I can personally attest that the silverlight 1.0 install is smoother than than flash. I had to restartd my browser with flash (just built a new computer and had to reinstall everything) Nice work!

re: Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience

Scott — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:48:57 GMT

Have they added "Close" or "Done" buttons to the installer?

I had to uninstall Silverlight from my system, anytime I browsed to a page with SL content embedded in it using FireFox, my whole desktop experience went downhill fast. CPU pegged at 100%, things were still running, I just couldn't open up anything that would let me kill FireFox.

Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience

POKE 53280,0: Pete Brown's Blog — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:41:00 GMT

Tim Sneath has put together a post and his team a whitepaper with information on how to do an in-place

Silverlight Installation Experience Guide

Pietro Brambati Blog — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:03:38 GMT

Cioè come migliorare l'esperienza dell'utente che arriva sul nostro sito e che non ha ancora scaricato

Silverlight install experience

"Texas Yankee" — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:40:36 GMT

Silverlight is still in its infancy, but its user experience needs to be top notch for it to gain traction

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iFX — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:59:07 GMT

Silverlight Installation Experience Guide

Silverlight Briefing Summary

Canadian Developers — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:28:11 GMT

Over the past 3 weeks, I have been touring across Canada giving a half-day briefing on Silverlight. It

Silverlight Briefing Summary

Canadian User Experience — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:28:12 GMT

Over the past 3 weeks, I have been touring across Canada giving a half-day briefing on Silverlight. It

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Community Blogs — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:06:09 GMT

Adam Kinney and Tim Sneath both discuss those users that have yet to install SL; Tim Stall has a nice

re: Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience

Andy Bridle — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:17:34 GMT

It would also be useful to be able to count the number of users who come to your site without Silverlight and those who then install it in response to the prompts, or leave the site still without Silverlight. Any ideas how this could be coded?

re: Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience

Peter Mounce — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:39:22 GMT

Is there a reason that the Silverlight plugin install in Firefox (and Safari? I don't remember...) does not make use of the get-plugin mechanism, and is not available via a link at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:7 ? I mean, the guys over at port25/Technet who did the Windows Media Player plugin for Firefox (http://port25.technet.com/pages/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download.aspx) did that, and as a result if I go to a page that uses WMP in Firefox, without the plugin, the little "you need a plugin" bar drops down from the top of the window and lets me know what's up - just like it does for Flash, etc.

What are the chances Silverlight can do the same? I mean, I appreciate it's possible to customise this experience, but as a previous commenter says, users have been conditioned to not install things that don't behave in standard ways that they're used to.

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WOW the Web — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:25:40 GMT

随着 Silverlight 1.0 在今年9月5日的全球同步发布，在国内包括"百度"在内的越来越多的网站开始选择应用了 Silverlight 技术。下面就对 Silverlight

re: Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience

Kim — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:51:38 GMT

You can get the BrowserObject component with Silverlight detection from http://www.browserobject.com. Free Edition with limited feature is also available.

Enhance Silverlight Installation Experience

Canadian User Experience — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:31:42 GMT

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Texas Yankee — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:35:11 GMT

Silverlight is still in its infancy, but its user experience needs to be top notch for it to gain traction

Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience

DEVELOPMENT SITE - NOT MY PUBLIC BLOG — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:48:42 GMT

Tim Sneath has put together a post and his team a whitepaper with information on how to do an in-place install of Silverlight. Using the default approach (as we did on our early work) is ok, but it isn't a great user experience. In that setup, the