{"id":2566,"date":"2010-05-03T21:17:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T20:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2566-a-business-web-site-implemented-entirely-in-silverlight.html"},"modified":"2010-05-03T21:17:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T20:17:27","slug":"a-business-web-site-implemented-entirely-in-silverlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2566-a-business-web-site-implemented-entirely-in-silverlight.html","title":{"rendered":"A business web site implemented entirely in Silverlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered what the web would look like if Silverlight or Flash were used for everything? The other day I came across a business site implemented entirely in Silverlight \u2013 well, apart from the forums, which seem to be HTML and JavaScript. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forefrontsecurity.org\" target=\"_blank\">ForefrontSecurity.org<\/a> is a third-party resource site for Microsoft\u2019s firewall and server security products. It is mostly documents and videos. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, the site looks good, provided you can run Silverlight; and given the target readership that\u2019s not too much of a stretch in this instance. Playing the embedded screencasts is very smooth, and they feel seamlessly integrated with the site, more so than with HTML plus a video plug-in.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I found the site infuriating. Without thinking, I tried to scroll a document using the mouse wheel; nothing happened. The page up and down keys do not work either. Copying text works with Ctrl-C, but if you select and right-click, you just get the Silverlight \u201cabout\u201d menu. I also found that the graphic effects \u2013 screens typically fade in as they change \u2013 made the site seem slow. Some things, like hyperlinks in full-screen mode, did not work as expected.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting experiment; but for a site like this which is mainly about finding and reading documents, its hard to see a good reason not to use HTML.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered what the web would look like if Silverlight or Flash were used for everything? The other day I came across a business site implemented entirely in Silverlight \u2013 well, apart from the forums, which seem to be HTML and JavaScript. ForefrontSecurity.org is a third-party resource site for Microsoft\u2019s firewall and server security products. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2566-a-business-web-site-implemented-entirely-in-silverlight.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A business web site implemented entirely in 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":[34,55,77,96],"tags":[394,461,586,825],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash","category-microsoft","category-silverlight","category-web-authoring","tag-flash","tag-html","tag-microsoft","tag-silverlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","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=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}