13.2. A Silverlight Twitter client

Deploying applications through the web has the massive advantage of deploy once, use anywhere, but with JavaScript it means coping with the pain of cross-browser issues and slow client-side performance. With Silverlight we can bring our structured application programming techniques and adapt them for the browser, often using the same libraries that we use on the desktop. In this section we look at a basic Silverlight Twitter client written in IronPython,^[12] shown in figure 13.6.

^[12] The user interface is deliberately gaudy so that you can visually see the way the UI elements are nested inside each other.

Figure 13.6. An IronPython Silverlight Twitter client