Hi,

I can't answer authoritatively on the first three without checking with one of my colleagues but in regards to...

d. They won't work out of the box - it is possible you could adapt (some? most?) of the code for a new Concrete5 block.

A. you would output from artisteer to html, then convert that to a theme (can take less than 10 min to do that)

B. what exactly do you mean?

C. Yes Concrete5 has an events system that can do just that :)

D. I don't know enough about SilverLight

The only one left seems to be b. you could, but it would be quite hacky, and probably take a fair amount of time to set up, and the user couldn't change their settings themselves.

Thank you for the replies.

B. - In Drupal you can define several themes (general look and feel) and then assign them to individual users on a per-user basis. Can I do something similar in Concrete?

C. Drupal has three editing modes

1. Filtered HTML which allows direct use of a small number of HTML tags, e.g. <b>
2. Full HTML which does what it says on the box.
3. PHP which allows you to put PHP code which gets run by the server as it would if it were a "normal" PHP page.

What interests me most is the latter

D. Here is the HTML needed to embed a Silverlight plugin

<form id="form1" runat="server" style="height:100%">
<div id="silverlightControlHost" style="text-align:center;padding:4px">
<object data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="1024px" height="800px">
<param name="source" value="fqt.xap"/>
<param name="onError" value="onSilverlightError" />
<param name="background" value="white" />
<param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="4.0.50401.0" />
<param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" />
<a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=149156&v=4.0.50401.0" style="text-decoration:none">
<img src="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=161376" alt="Get Microsoft Silverlight" style="border-style:none"/>
</a>
</object><iframe id="_sl_historyFrame" style="visibility:hidden;height:0px;width:0px;border:0px"></iframe></div>
</form>

Can I embed this in a Concrete block and expect it to be delivered to the browser as literal HTML code?

at the very least for d you'd have to link it with <?=$this->getThemePath()?>/

Certainly you could do custom styling for the user or user group by loading up that object in the theme. Itd take a little coding but if your using drupal that should be the norm

Were actually working on something exactly like this for a client today

for B take a look at the Theme Switcher plugin, a bit of hacking, and you should be able to do it :)

Thank you for all the replies. I am tempted to take Concrete for a spin. I assume a local install with WAMP is not going to pose any excessive problems? That apart, anything definitive on the Silverlight plugin code?

if silver light is anything like flash, then you should just need an html snippet, and there's a block for that kind of thing. you could do this by creating you're own silverlight block, but it's not really necessary.