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Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?

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Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?

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Post by RK »

reitzensteinm wrote: post #11
RK wrote: post #9

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Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu 10.4 and the site said: Your installed version of Silverlight is: 0.0.00000.0 So I'm guessing no...

I do not understand what's going through the mind of a developer who makes a site to display a software version number and does not have a special case for not installed . Incredible.

Taking a page from the myriad of sites that require cookies and when cookies are not enabled throw up some horribly cryptic error unrelated to cookies or fail completely.

Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?

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Post by thebigshane »

boomhauer wrote: post #105
thebigshane wrote: post #98

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function doit(){ var parts = Array("ver-major", "ver-minor", "ver-build", "ver-revision"); //try firefox/non-IE version. var nav = navigator.plugins["Silverlight Plug-In"]; if (nav) { for (var i = 0; i All I can say is... "interesting" EDIT: that is the code they are using as of this posting

hey, you found my crappy little site ;) the IE version will correctly state "not installed" but apparently the FF/Non-IE is returning a non-null nav object, thus printing the zeros. btw- the reason for creating this site- extracting the exact version number is not straightforward, for some reason. MS decided to let us have isVersionSupported(), instead of a simple getVersion() or similiar. Thus, loop it.

Yea, I thought your approach was interesting (as is typical in most code reviews) but I was also amazed at the non-straightforwardness of getting said version number.

EDIT: Also, a lot of commenters here are just making jokes (funny ones, sure) but not actually looking at or considering the code required to get the version number.

Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?

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Post by rg »

PhrosTT wrote: post #86
avar wrote: post #52

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Bing Maps requires Silverlight for some features. I found that out when I tried Bing recently, but found that Microsoft is more interested in pushing their own technology than pushing their search engine. Microsoft also recently did a project with NASA that requires Silverlight. Thanks, Microsoft.

the SL enabled Bing Maps is amazing. Try it if you haven't. - hit the 3D button.

hit the 3D button -- "not supported on Chrome"

Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?

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Post by arikb »

srwh wrote: post #64
jasonkester wrote: post #15

There 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 ;-)

JavaScript never required proprietary development tools

Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?

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Post by ajuc »

adlep wrote: post #88
ajuc wrote: post #46

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So far I only encountered 1 site that required silverlight to work (onet.pl public video streaming), I have linux, so I installed moonlight, it almost worked, but then I've learned that they also use some DRM that only works on Mac and Windows (also - it told me firefox is not supported :)). For me using silverlight is like telling people to keep away.

Greetings to a fellow Pole. "Jak sie masz?"

:) Greetings to you too.
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