Design Is Philosophy
Tuturials, thoughts, ideas and information about web design and digital media by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, designer, developer, digital media expert, information philosopher, speaker and author of the Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web in 24 Hours series (version 2, 3 and 4), Lynda.com's WordPress 3.0 Essential Training course and Microsoft Expression Web 4 LiveLessons and creative director of Pink & Yellow Media - a Vancouver based digital media company.
Category Archives: Silverlight
Opera still on the fence about Silverlight
Oct. 10, 2008
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As I’ve reported before, the Opera web browser has less than stellar support for Microsoft’s Silverlight applications. During a net-meeting with Opera product executive Oleg Tukhin the Norwegian online magazine Amobil.no, my brother Ole asked if we will be seeing … Continue reading
Previewing Silverlight Applications in Your Browser With Expression Development Server
Aug. 3, 2008
If you’ve tried placing a Silverlight application in a HTML page in Expression Web 2 (or any other web authoring application for that matter) and previewing it in your browser you know it doesn’t work. Here is a small exerpt … Continue reading
Silverlight in Opera (but no Silverligth 2 – at least not yet)
Mar. 12, 2008
Silverlight is supposed to support the excellent Opera web browser, but there is a long road between theory and reality. As of right now, a clean instal of Silverlight will not function at all in Opera, even with the “masking” … Continue reading
Is Silverlight the end of Flash?
Mar. 11, 2008
I got a couple of emails about my post yesterday from angry web devs who wanted to complain about my Microsoft Fanboi attitude toward Silverlight. I won’t post the emails themselves here (let’s put it this way: had they been … Continue reading
Silverlight iFrame blocked by WordPress.com!
Feb. 20, 2008
Ivana Tilca contacted me the other day because she had a problem posting Silverlight content on her blog. On further inspection it turns out it’s impossible to post Silverlight content using the iFrame method on WordPress.com hosted blogs! And since … Continue reading
Minority Report Screen Using Silverlight and a Wiimote
Jan. 16, 2008
Turns out there are many interesting applications for the Wiimote other than gaming. And now people are starting to really take advantage of this. Cynergy Labs has created a Silverlight (WPF) application that uses custom gloves with IR bulbs on … Continue reading
Moving to Silverlight – tips and tricks tutorial
Dec. 10, 2007
No postings for a while. Sorry. I’m buried in work. In the meantime I found an excellent video at ThinkSwedish that explains how to transition from Adobe’s MXML and ActionScript 3 to XAML and C#. Interestingly the ThinkSwedish blog is … Continue reading
Silverlight Posting Issues – Solved
Aug. 8, 2007
I encountered some weird problems trying to post Silverligth content in my blog and I can’t find anyone outside of blogs.msdn.com who have done it. My problem seems to arise from a combination of complicated scripts from Microsoft and bad … Continue reading
iZufall Project – From Concept to Design using Expression Design
Aug. 6, 2007
It took way too long but now it’s here: My first video tutorial covering the overall design process of the iZufall.com website using Microsoft Expression Design. In the video I cover the overall design idea, how to import vectorized graphics … Continue reading
Posting a Silverlight Application – Major Headache
Aug. 6, 2007
As I promised I’ve made an in-depth video tutorial on how I created the iZufall.com website using Microsoft Expression Design. The video itself was easy enough to make but I spent several hours today trying to conform it to the … Continue reading