Microsoft Silverlight is a plug-in that is available for multiple browsers as well as multiple operating systems. It provides websites with interactivity. Microsoft Silverlight provides high quality video and low latency audio to create highly interactive databases and user interfaces for a number of applications. For example, most government websites such as the common county’s jail inmate database use Silverlight to allow users to easily search through public records and access relevant images, videos, and audio clips.

 

Silverlight For Mac

Since Microsoft Silverlight was designed for cross-platform use, it is available for a number of operating systems, including Mac. Users can download Silverlight For Mac by clicking here and selecting the “Download Now” button found at the top of the page. Silverlight For Mac provides users with all of Silverlight For Windows’ features and simply allows users to access webpages that run Silverlight content.

 

Advantages/Disadvantages

Microsoft Silverlight is advantageous because it allows websites to provide viewers with interactive content without having to use Java or another complicated programming language. Microsoft Silverlight is flexible enough to be used for a wide variety of content and can support programming languages such as AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby.

Microsoft Silverlight can also be integrated into a website along with existing applications, preventing loss of data or other content. However, like Flash and other interactive programming platforms, users must install Silverlight on their computer in order to access webpages that run it.