Silverlight Major Features

According to Microsoft’s Silverlight Development Team member Scott Guthrie, Silverlight gives developers to build rich internet web applications.
Silverlight brings lot of cool stuff and new features to developers to develop web applications. The developers no longer need to rely on the external third party tools to improve the look and feel of the web pages as Silver Light fills the gap.
Silverlight major features are:
• Enhancements in Rich Media Internet Applications (including H.264 video support)
• Major support for graphics (3D support and GPU hardware speeding up)
• Application development (Richer data-binding support)
• One more major thing is possibility for a Silverlight application to run external web browsers
• Drag and drop the controls.
• Give flashy and glossy effect to your web page.
• Feel of the desktop application (quick rendering of the graphical data) on web.