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

Using a plugin for your website makes it slow, and requires the user to have the plugin installed. Silverlight for instance rules out all Linux user. Also, since Silverlight is pretty new, there is no telling how committed Microsoft will be to keep the platform alive if it doesn't pick up soon.

I'd stick to plain old HTML with server side scripting.

Also, for public websites: Flash and Silverlight can't be indexed by any search engine, so good luck with writing tons of metadata if you want any visitors at all.