Silverlight is a lightweight browser plugâin that frees your code from the traditional confines of the browser. It is a rulesâchanging, groundbreaking technology that allows you to run rich client applications right inside the browser. Even more impressively, it is able to host true .NET applications in nonâMicrosoft browsers (like Firefox) and on nonâMicrosoft platforms (like Mac OS X). Silverlight is evolving fast, and you need a reliable guidebook to make sense of it.