14.8. Adding Silverlight to Your Application
So back to the Hi yo Silver application. How did this end up being rendered in the browser? In Silverlight 3.0, applications are displayed using the <object> tag. Previous versions of Silverlight utilized an ASP.NET Silverlight tag that has since been deprecated (although still available on CodePlex).
14.8.1. Object Tag
Select the Chapter14.HelloSilverlight.Web project, and open the file ~/Chapter14.HelloSilverlightTestPage.html. The page will contain an <object> tag similar to the following:
<object data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="100%" height="100%"> <param name="source" value="ClientBin/Chapter14.HelloSilverlight.xap"/> <param name="onError" value="onSilverlightError" ...
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