Microsoft Silverlight is a component of many web browsers that lets them play music and videos. Silverlight used to be incredibly popular, but was eventually made obsolete by HTML5. Almost no major ...

Microsoft Silverlight is a component in many web browsers that helps them stream and display video, music, clickable menus, and other types of "rich media" content. Launched in 2007, it was intended ...

Cross-platform development frameworks make programmers' lives easier. Programming one set of source code files which an interpreter then converts to run on different operating system saves developers ...

Silverlight is a web browser plugin from Microsoft that's being slowly phased out. Reuters Microsoft Silverlight is a component of many web browsers that lets them play music and videos. Silverlight ...

In years past, the compatibility between most things Apple and Microsoft was limited, if not non-existent. Nowadays, Apple and Microsoft are making an effort to create products that are compatible ...

Silverlight 5 looks like to be the last version released by Microsoft as it looks to transition toward HTML5 development. Silverlight 5 looks like to be the last version released by Microsoft as it ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Moonlight, the third-party open-source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin, has been discontinued due to a lack of demand. The project, created in 2009, provided Linux users with a means ...

The uptake of HTML5 video playback has forced Microsoft to take the sword to Silverlight and leave it unsupported in its soon-to-be-released Edge web browser for Windows 10. Microsoft said in a blog ...