Microsoft® Silverlight" is a cross-browser,
cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of
.NET
based media experiences and rich interactive applications for
the Web.
Silverlight
offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB,
C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web
applications.
Silverlight
supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video
to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows.
Because
Windows
Media Video 9 is an implementation of the SMPTE VC-1
standard,
Silverlight
also supports VC-1 video, though still only in an ASF file
format.and With version 2.0, the programming logic can be
written in any
.NET
language, including some common dynamic programming languages
like Ruby and Python.