Channel 10 has a video up that you should check out if you haven’t seen Silverlight Airlines. I first saw this demo at MIX this year and I think it’s a really, really good demo. Part of the reason is because I think it does for travel sites what Google Maps did for mapping applications. We were all so impressed with the fact that we could do maps on a screen with MapQuest that we didn’t realize how terrible the experience was until Google Maps came along. That gigantic perception shift arguably helped usher in the huge adoption of Ajax that we see today.

Silverlight Airlines is just a proof of concept, and not an actual site, but it does show off what you can do with RIAs and how you can take a current web experience and make it better. The demo is available to download, but for some reason I can’t get Silverlight to work on my Mac, so I don’t have any screenshots. If you’re in the same boat I am, take a look at the video. I think you’ll be really impressed.

[tags]Silverlight, Silverlight Airlines, Rich Internet Applications[/tags]

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1. Silverlight at MIX and the BlogZone
2. My Linkblog Proves I’m Still A Silverlight Fan
3. Moonlight Demos (Silverlight on Linux)
4. Lee Brimelow on Silverlight
5. My Interview with the Silverlight Team