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Look Microsoft, you can create useful dynamic web services without requiring Flash, I mean Silverlight.

Actually... "Zoom.it runs on Windows Azure and enhances the experience with Microsoft Silverlight when available."

From the "About" page.

I don’t have Silverlight and it runs just fine here. (Yup, it’s all in my DOM!) Using Silverlight when installed is fine by me — theoretically, it’s going to run faster than having a browser scale tens of images tens of times a second.

I do have Silverlight installed and I couldn't seem to get the site to use Silverlight. Still all DOM as far as I could tell.

It reverts to silverlight if you are using IE (of course, :) )

As noted by RRW here http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_introduces_so...

It works on your iPad/Phone/Pod too!

Look Microsoft, you can create useful dynamic web services without requiring Flash, I mean Silverlight

Microsoft "invented" XMLHttpRequest for their Outlook Web client.

Bing Maps doesn't require Silverlight. Some people even prefer it over Google Maps.

Given that Microsoft has been creating useful dynamic web services without Flash or Silverlight for some time, I don't they were particularly shocked by their ability to create this one.

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