Scarecrow Man Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 Microsoft on Monday showed video pros at NAB Silverlight, a new Mac and PC-compatible Web browser plug-in that provides interactive Web capabilities similar to how Adobe Flash works with streaming video capabilities superior to QuickTime, according to the company. Microsoft will provide a beta of Silverlight later this month with plans for its general release to follow. A "technology preview" is available for download.Silverlight lets content creators incorporate video and animation into their Web content. It provides a method for displaying vector-based graphics, text, animation, media and overlays. Silverlight doesn’t require any special back-end Web environment to deploy it integrates with existing infrastructure tools such as Apache and PHP, javascript and XHTML....Flash has "some video capabilities, and some success in that market," Key said. But Silverlight offers "better video quality than Flash," while the Expression tools will be "cheaper, faster and better" than Adobes offerings, he claimed.Full StoryMicrosoft Silverlight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 Just tried it and it seems to work flawlessly considering it is in beta format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 It's all above my head. Everything works fine now. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted April 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 Adobe's Comeback:http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Media_Player Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 18, 2007 Report Share Posted April 18, 2007 Tit for tat?? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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