When the support that Microsoft offers HTML5 began to become increasingly evident, many feared for the future of Silverlight, but today those doubts have been dispelled when, in the context of the event was held Firestarter " official launch of Silverlight 5.
To determine that things had to be added to Silverlight, Microsoft held a vote in which more than 70,000 gave their views. And luckily for all, over 70% of these features will be included in the next version of the multimedia framework of the Redmond company.
Thus he extended support to playback of HD video, With support for H.264 video decoding hardware, which will lighten the load on the CPU and by the way, save battery life in portable case, making even the netbooks can play 1080p content. Also new is the Silverlight 5 Trickplay, That lets you change the speed of video playback without changing pitch or audio frequency.
For developers, Silverlight 5 is based on the capabilities out-of-browser, which allows you to create and manage child windows, and there will be features that enable the creation of content that looks like magazines, such as editing text in multiple columns, and enhanced quality text with the arrival of Pixel Snapping and OpenType font support.
Silverlight Beta 5 is coming sometime in the spring of 2011, while the stable version will be released in the second half of the year.
