Netflix: we’re very happy with Silverlight

One year ago, Netflix began looking at Silverlight primarily as a way to get media streamed to Macintosh computers. When we dug in further, we also wanted to broaden support for Firefox. Then we discovered we could produce a better solution for all platforms by eradicating platform-specific code, enabling us as a business to concentrate …

SL3: Adobe AIR is dead!

“Out-of-browser Experiences have now come to Silverlight.  This is a highly requested feature and is enabled with no additional download/plugin.  Each and every Silverlight 3 application can be enabled to run as a desktop application (yes, cross-platform with Windows/Mac) by subscribing to a series of APIs and defining the application in the manifest. “

Silverlight 3 spoilers

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Brad-Abrams-Silverlight-30-for-Great-Business-Apps/   Cool, in SL3, we’ll have the concept of screens and deeplinks out-of-the-box. Too bad we have implemented it @Axinom several times already (in different teams).   They’ve also added a mightly overview/detail controls – can it be interesting for AxCMS user interface?