Using Silverlight for an entire website?

Question

We need to build an administration portal website to support our client/server application. Since we\'re a .Net shop the obvious traditional way would be to do that in ASP.Net.

Answer 1

I would recommend against building a pure Silverlight site.

Silverlight suffers from the same issues as Flash does: Unintuitive Bookmarking, issues with printing, accessibility issues, not working back buttons and so on.

Also, you would require your users to have Silverlight installed or at least to have the ability to install it.

In controlled environements (eg. in large companies or health care) or on mobile devices, this might not be the case.