{"id":189,"date":"2007-04-16T16:01:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2007-04-16T16:01:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T15:01:15","slug":"wpfe-is-now-silverlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/189-wpfe-is-now-silverlight.html","title":{"rendered":"WPF\/E is now Silverlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Flash alternative has a new name: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/silverlight\/default_01.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Silverlight<\/a>. Undoubtedly a radical shift in naming conventions. Back in 2005, Microsoft renamed Avalon to Windows Presentation Foundation, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?postid=186\" target=\"_blank\">I noted<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>These new names seem to be deliberately chosen to be forgettable. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now we have memorable back. Interesting. <\/p>\n<p>The name may be there, but the product is still in preview; the latest release remains the February CTP, with full release promised&nbsp;before July 2007.&nbsp;The emphasis is on video and vector graphics; there&#8217; s no common language runtime implementation yet. You can write Silverlight code in JavaScript. It&#8217;s cross-platform, but currently only supports Windows and Mac; no device support yet. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/silverlight\/faq.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">the faq here<\/a> for more information; and a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/tims\/archive\/2007\/04\/15\/introducing-microsoft-silverlight.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">useful summary from Tim Sneath<\/a> who says there is big Silverlight news to come at Mix07.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:1dce6c6e-148b-4082-b127-2ea1381ed022\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/silverlight\" rel=\"tag\">silverlight<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/adobe\" rel=\"tag\">adobe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/flash\" rel=\"tag\">flash<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Flash alternative has a new name: Silverlight. Undoubtedly a radical shift in naming conventions. Back in 2005, Microsoft renamed Avalon to Windows Presentation Foundation, and I noted that: These new names seem to be deliberately chosen to be forgettable. Now we have memorable back. Interesting. The name may be there, but the product is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/189-wpfe-is-now-silverlight.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WPF\/E is now Silverlight<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,80,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-software-development","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}