Silverlight comes indirectly iPhone

The video content streamed using Silverlight technology should soon be playable on the Apple iPhone. Insofar as the Cupertino company prohibits the development of execution environments such as Flash or Silverlight on its terminal, Microsoft has opted to bypass this limitation by working on the server side. Specifically, it is simply to allow a publisher who wants one of his videos can be viewed on iPhone's true streaming broadcast in a format compatible.

"We've worked with Apple to create a server-side solution with IIS Media Services," said Brian Goldfarb, responsible user experience at Microsoft, to Betanews. "What we are doing is taking content that is encoded for streaming our progressive and allow the owner to say" I want this to work on iPhone ". The server will dynamically make the content compatible, same content, same entry point, with the iPhone. To do this, he explains, in particular to use the  video HTML 5, "in many ways. Without complex manipulations and without re-encoding, it becomes possible to read a Silverlight video on iPhone.

So we know the manufacturer hostile to the introduction of third party technologies in the mobile environment, Betanews asks, appropriately, on the fact that Microsoft claims to have worked with Apple on the subject. In reality, the publisher would have "done all the work, but had obtained approval from Apple without difficulties. This finding should open up avenues for those who like Adobe would like to enter the Apple ecosystem?

In the meantime, Microsoft should be happy to communicate on the subject at the exit of the final version of Silverlight 4. This effort tends to show that his statements concerning the nature of its technology platform intended for rich Web applications do not remain dead letter.