Tim Sneath, (a Microsoftie and blogger) announced today that Windows Presentation Foundation, Everywhere (WPF/E) will be released as Microsoft Silverlight.

Silverlight is a browser plug-in that allows developers to create web applications using XAML as the markup for the UI control it with client side code in JavaScript. It implements a subset of WPF and plays WMV files on all supported platforms. The current plug-in is about a 1 MB for XP and Vista and less than 3 MB on OS X.

As expected Digg commenters responded by dismissing Silverlight as a knock-off Flash, XUL, or even SVG.

As a Windows Forms and web developer, I see it as yet another reason to move from Winforms to WPF.

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