What does this mean?

[quddusaliquddus]

As Silverlight is a browser side technology, you would have no problem serving Silverlight content from our servers as long as you add the proper MIME type settings to the site via .htaccess rules such as:


AddType application/xaml+xml .xaml
AddType application/x-silverlight-app .xap
AddType application/x-ms-xbap .xbap

[rogueDev]

As Silverlight is a browser side technology, you would have no problem serving Silverlight content from our servers as long as you add the proper MIME type settings to the site via .htaccess rules such as:


AddType application/xaml+xml .xaml
AddType application/x-silverlight-app .xap
AddType application/x-ms-xbap .xbap

HTTP responses have a "content-type" as apart of their header.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_headers

Examples are JPG, HTML, EXE.

It is advised to set the content type appropriately when you serve a file from your webserver by modiftying your htaccess file. To be honest, you can get away without setting this for all the popular browsers from my experience, but it might affect caching or obscure browsers negatively. There could be other implications, but none that I'm aware of.

Since Silverlight xap archives are a very new type, 90% of servers probably aren't configured to serve this filetype by default, so they're advising you to modify your htaccess file and *** that type.