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Originally Posted by sckmcck View Post
Silverlight 2.0 implements the same version of the CLR as .NET 3.0. The included libraries are a small subset of the .Net Bass Class Library. AFAIK, the CLR is fairly lightweight and small.

So, what I was thinking of, as a framework that would support something comparable to Java Applictions (and not just Java Applets) is bigger than Silverlight? And Silverlight is more comparable to "just" Java Applet support, and/or Flash*?


(* there are some stand-alone flash players, but they're really just a "here, run this applet in something other than your browser", from what I understand ...)