nde, i don't know if silverlight can be converted manually..i can't insall it because i don't really trust it..
i don't think silverlight is worth the effort..i did some research and it seems the biggest(and only) advocates of silverlight are its developers and .net programmers who lack flash knowledge.
i don't want to rush into a predication that this thing is almost dead..but it appears than with the early versions of silverlight, some websites; particulary sports with streaming video were quick to endorse and implement(as mentioned on silverlight blogs to test out certain apps) and nbc ofcourse.. i checked a few of those websites expecting to see 'install silverlight' etc but it seems those sites were just as quick to drop it and everything is built with flash now.
nba.com
watch.tsn.ca/#clip177324 (that was supposed to be a streaming silverlight)
silverlight seems far from a final version and the ms zealots keep saying it's beta(2.0) but nothing on ms sez so. the "plugin" also seems to have problems with firefox with some devs releasing a custom javascript(silverlight.js) to address some gecko conflicts with silver.. most say it isn't working.
i extracted the files using an msp expander from this link:
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/04/07/571138.aspx nothing registers with regsrv32 or runs directly with rundll32 so i have no idea how ms installs the plugin but obviously all files must go in the systems' folder and not the browser's plugin folder.. there seems to be some locale files that can be done without..
Size: Name:
269.672 silverlightconfiguration.EXE
436.080 silverlightconfigurationui.DLL
132.936 ctrlResource.DLL
11.608 mscorlib_fr.DLL
11.608 mscorlib_it.DLL
11.608 mscorlib_de.DLL
11.608 mscorlib_es.DLL
11.608 mscorlib_zh_hans.DLL
11.608 mscorlib_zh_hant.DLL
11.608 mscorlib_ja.DLL
11.608 mscorlib_ko.DLL
138.080 systemwindowsbrowser.DLL
11.608 system_ja.DLL
11.096 system_ko.DLL
11.608 system_fr.DLL
11.608 system_it.DLL
11.096 system_de.DLL
11.608 system_es.DLL
10.584 system_zh_hans.DLL
11.608 system_zh_hant.DLL
789.328 System.Windows.DLL
10.568 mscorrc_zh_hans.DLL
10.568 mscorrc_zh_hant.DLL
326.472 systemxml.DLL
236.384 microsoftvisualbasic.DLL
11.128 microsoftvisualbasic_zh_hant.DLL
11.128 microsoftvisualbasic_zh_hans.DLL
289.648 systemruntimeserialization.DLL
162.632 systemnet.DLL
342.880 systemservicemodel.DLL
76.648 systemservicemodelweb.DLL
3.076.424 coreclr.dll
3.086.144 core.dll
783.680 ctrl.dll
5.587 manifest.XML
11.128 microsoftvisualbasic_de.DLL
11.128 microsoftvisualbasic_es.DLL
11.128 microsoftvisualbasic_fr.DLL
11.128 microsoftvisualbasic_it.DLL
11.128 microsoftvisualbasic_ja.DLL
11.128 microsoftvisualbasic_ko.DLL
1.461.064 mscorlib.DLL
11.592 mscorrc_de.DLL
11.080 mscorrc_es.DLL
11.080 mscorrc_fr.DLL
11.080 mscorrc_it.DLL
11.080 mscorrc_ja.DLL
11.080 mscorrc_ko.DLL
11.080 mscorrc.DLL
289.616 systemcore.DLL
236.352 system.DLL
Directory contains 12.511.539 Bytes in 51 Files
Total: 12.511.539 Bytes in 51 Files
silverlight seems to be mainly for windows+ie.. they say it supports mac osx but i've yet to find someone of a mac(online) using/developing for it. maybe ms is still living in the delusion that aps/plugins for its oses only will sell like hot cakes, that doesn't happen anymore and there's no place for your cloud9 thingy if you keep ignoring browsers and os offering from others. i really hope this thing never catches on, i'm no programmer but from what i read about how silverlight blends in ajax with xml with .net; it's seems like a hacker's dream come true
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=this+site+requires+silverlight
edit: sorry.. i misunderstood, thought you were asking about silverlight..what's bing? this bing:
http://www.bing.im/en/
grr..can't believe i went into all this silverlight research for nothing
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/29/2009 12:09AM by disrupted.