Silverlight™ is a new form of treatment for WPF/E. Active ingredients include XAML, JavaScript, and HD Video. Do not take Silverlight™ if you are running open source operating systems or if your CPU is slower than 450MHz. Silverlight™ has not completed all clinical trials and should not be used daily. Side effects were similar to Windows Media Player and include vendor lock-in, poor support for non-Windows operating systems, and DRM. Silverlight™ Light Up the Web.

Sorry, I couldn’t help but take a jab. In all seriousness, I’ve actually been meaning to check out this new offering from Microsoft. Perhaps now that its name doesn’t sound like an acronym for a disorder, I might take a few minutes to play around with it.

Unfortunately, it seems Microsoft hasn’t built their Expression products (and certainly not Visual Studio) to run on Mac OSX. It’s kind of hard to take the design world by storm if you don’t offer tools for their primary platform of choice. Oops? For that reason alone, Flash will be king for a long time to come.