{"id":156,"date":"2008-10-14T21:23:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/silverlight-20-released\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T21:23:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T21:23:08","slug":"silverlight-20-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/silverlight-20-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverlight 2.0 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today MS have released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/silverlight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Silverlight 2.0<\/a> out of beta.&#160; Great news for me as I can now get it rolled out at work and get people trying out things like <a href=\"http:\/\/photosynth.net\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoSynth<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_Zoom\" target=\"_blank\">DeepZoom<\/a> (we can&#8217;t really deploy betas!).&#160; I&#8217;m really looking forward to seeing how people might use them.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The installation is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/silverlight\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and is available for PC and Mac and supports IE, Firefox and Google Chrome.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>An interesting note from the release material is that it seems like Apple are blocking a release for iPhone&#8230; I guess it gets in the way of their own plans?&#160; What with Silverlight on its way to Windows Mobile and Nokia, and WM Mesh clients on their way too, I&#8217;m going to feel a little left out with my iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>Given MS&#8217;s current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/default.aspx?icid=winvan\" target=\"_blank\">marketing campaign<\/a> if I were them I&#8217;d be tempted to build iPhone compatible clients anyway.&#160; Then I&#8217;d show them working as much as possible and let Apple publicly deny them to users&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today MS have released Silverlight 2.0 out of beta.&#160; Great news for me as I can now get it rolled out at work and get people trying out things like PhotoSynth and DeepZoom (we can&#8217;t really deploy betas!).&#160; I&#8217;m really looking forward to seeing how people might use them.&#160; The installation is here and is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/silverlight-20-released\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silverlight 2.0 Released&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,154,76,176,21,177,121,13,39,40,101],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-chrome","tag-deepzoom","tag-firefox","tag-google","tag-im-a-pc","tag-iphone","tag-microsoft","tag-photosynth","tag-seadragon","tag-silverlight","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}