Silverlight styles, an old school html style?

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Silverlight styles, an old school html style?

Hi I'm looking for some free silverlight styles to play with. I'd ideally like a style which makes a silverlight page's controls (textbox, etc), look as though they came from a html page. Also after some other styles to play with, any good free libraries out there?

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The Expression Gallery has some themes that you can download and play with.

However trying to make them look like HTML controls is a tall order. The reason being that HTML doesn't actually define what the controls look like at all. For example the same HTML for a CheckBox can be rendered in a variety of different ways depending on the browser and the operating system.

AnthonyWJones 2010-03-27 12:49:11

thanks, good point, I should have specified I meant IE (6 ideally)

tony 2010-03-27 14:11:05

@tony: IE6 on XP or 2000 and Windows Server 2003? the Textbox/Checkbox etc look very different. Are you refering to the default windows color scheme used by these platforms since their appearance can vary by user choices? I take it you're not interested on what this app looks like when run on a Mac?

AnthonyWJones 2010-03-27 15:54:36

Correct, IE6 on XP with default colour scheme.We have an ajax solution that's presently IE6 only (IE8/7 in 'pretend your IE5.5' mode, we need to prettify it and make it cross browser. Clearly that's achievable using standard css but I want to investigate doing it using silverlight. Clearly there are cons (must be installed, potentially larger page sizes, etc) but ... I want to replace a page and make it as close as possible to standard html, and have a dropdown to change the styles.Thanks for the replies

tony 2010-03-28 18:51:04

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