I answered no, but http://www.silverlightversion.com/ claims I have 4.0 installed. Which is strange, beacause I contantly see little "Install Silverlight to view this video" buttons when browsing Microsoft sites. Maybe most Silverlight content requires a newer version or something? Or it just doesn't work in Firefox.
Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
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Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#62It doesn't work on any of my machines in active use, so no. I think I have Moonlight on one laptop, but I haven't had much success with it. At school where we have Windows, it is not deployed (still on IE6/7 and Flash 8, mind you).
Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the "why" that makes it funny for me. I have no idea why I mind Flash less than Silverlight. It certainly has nothing to do with Microsoft. Maybe it's that there's already a Flash. And I already downloaded it and installed it. If you want to give me Flash-like content, go nuts, but do it with the Flash that I already have. There's no real reason to have built a second one, so I don't see any reason why I should…
For a .net developer, using silverlight to tie into things they already have makes a lot more sense than flash which would result in a somewhat parallel code base in something completely different. I guess if silverlight was the accepted plugin and flash was the newer player your feelings would be reversed.
Ah, but as developers our opinions don't matter at all. It's all about what our end-users want, and they clearly don't wan't to install Silverlight. The fact that it's 10x easier for me as a C# guy to write my thing against Silverlight has exactly zero bearing on my decision to build a product in it. Users won't install it, so it's just bad business to build software for it.
And yes, naturally, if the other thing was the accepted thing, I would be happy to accept it and not the other one. Like I say, there's no bias against one or the other. I (and seemingly everybody) simply don't want both.
Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#64There are just so few sites that require Sliverlight that I find myself mildly offended when I come across one that tries to make me install it. Who are you, telling me to install something just to view your website? Good day, sir. Funny that that's never been my experience with Flash. Flash sites are horrible and I avoid them if I can, but Flash can socially engineer its way onto my machine through cool little in-br…
Funny that ten years ago some of our website visitors complained about requiring javascript to use the site ;-)
Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#65Yes. On a mac too. I'm a netflix subscriber and NF requires Silverlight.
Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#66I have it installed but disabled. I don't want another flash-like product to gain traction, but occasionally I have to visit MSFT sites that require it.
Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#67I likely wouldn't have it installed, except for the fact I'm currently developing a Silverlight app (online editor for an in-house DSL).
Actually, I probably would install it, if only because Netflix uses it for their online player.
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#68There are just so few sites that require Sliverlight that I find myself mildly offended when I come across one that tries to make me install it. Who are you, telling me to install something just to view your website? Good day, sir. Funny that that's never been my experience with Flash. Flash sites are horrible and I avoid them if I can, but Flash can socially engineer its way onto my machine through cool little in-br…
I have it because one of the few sites (netflix) uses it to keep movies full screen on my secondary monitor. Flash will automatically kick back to the original window size whenever doing a user action on another monitor.
Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#69Microsoft bundles Silverlight with every Flip4Mac update ... and I duly remove it each time.
Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#70On some boxes, yes. On the one I'm using now, no.