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Microsoft Download Center and Silverlight

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There is a cool preview download centre up that uses Silverlight:

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https://preview.microsoft.com/downloads/HomePage.aspx 

First glances it has:

  • Menu in top right written in Silverlight
  • The Popular and New Downloads tables are Silverlight
  • The Browse Downloads is definitely the best use with a cool interaction when moving through the alphabet

Does seem very slow but that is probably because it is in Preview and not on full hosting infrastructure (guessing that anyway)

Comments

  • Anonymous
    December 04, 2007
    PingBack from http://blogs.msdn.com/markjo/archive/2007/12/04/microsoft-download-center-and-silverlight.aspx

  • Anonymous
    December 04, 2007
    There is a cool preview download centre up that uses Silverlight: http://preview.microsoft.com/downloads/HomePage.aspx

  • Anonymous
    December 04, 2007
    Why wasn't this done using CSS, HTML, and JavaScript? Would seem like a better set of technologies to use.

  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2007
    Rosyna - good question. I think this is a testing ground for various concepts and I guess they are just testing stuff out. I agree it's not a great use of Silverlight in a simple nav scenario but I could definitely see it being used to do some smart nav (think a file shuffle like the iTunes album art view all with Silverlight in the browser)