I wonder if the Flash player debut ahead of Silverlight on phones running Microsoft's Windows Phone OS 7.0. We still don't know exactly when Microsoft and Adobe will manage to get the Flash player on Windows Phone 7 devices (the pair have said they're working together to do so). We will be sharing more details on Windows Phone support for Silverlight 4 once both products are in the market. It is very straightforward to take an existing Silverlight browser based application and re-compile it to target the Windows Phone. We are evaluating this for future releases of Windows Phone.
"In its first release, the Windows Phone browser does not support a browser plug-in model. When I asked a spokesperson for more details about Microsoft's plans to support Silverlight as a browser plug-in on phones, I received back this statement via e-mail: Product Manager Mike Harsh noted that Silverlight won't run in the browser on the first generation of Windows Phone 7 devices during his presentation about developing for Windows Phone 7 at Mix this week. The few smartphones that do support browser plug-ins like Flash support FlashLite, not full Flash, because the processors in phones haven't been powerful enough to support them. Since Silverlight 4 isn't quite done yet, Microsoft is providing Windows Phone 7 developers with a version of Silverlight 3 enhanced with some Silverlight 4 features, for development purposes, company officials said this week.īut Silverlight also is a browser plug-in that enables viewing of multimedia content, the same way Adobe's Flash does. Silverlight is the primary development platform for Windows Phone 7.
This may be obvious to some, but in case you were wondering: The first Windows Phone 7 devices aren't going to be able to run Silverlight in the browser.
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