by Don Burnett
I try not to blog about things other people are already mentioning, but Mike Harsh's Blog brought this site to my attention, and it really shows some of the quintessential reasons why Silverlight is winning the battle for the hearts and minds of people doing video related websites.
Enter Media Preview.TV
Let's examine some of the media integration with UI elements to create a great together User Experience, that is very much unlike a website and something you'd see in TV..
Note the large video window. Silverlight supports up to 720p and the audio and video streaming are just flawless. Instead of cluttering the screen with menus they decided to make "pull-out" menus with feature content items.. The interface also allows you to login, in what I can only call a "better than AJAX" login control and customize content. Once logged in you can customize content and even store content you like in the creative store. Down at the bottom row you have a view of content that you own that you can email to someone or trash. The UI element there works with "Drag-N-Drop". The entire interface, down to the terms of use scrolling legal information is just very well thought out..
This all looks and works the same from any Mac Safari web browser or any Windows web browser. Silverlight now supports Mozilla Firefox as well.
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