The only site I've wanted to use that wanted me to install Silverlight was tv2.no, but I managed to make it work with gecko-mediaplayer (though I had to right-click the movie, select settings, audio and correct audio channel in order to get sound...not sure why that couldn't be correctly set by default). Other than that, I've fortunately never needed Silverlight.
Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
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Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#32It's been sat there in my 'suggested Windows' updates ever since I installed Windows 7, and I haven't yet found a reason to actually acknowledge it. So, no.
Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#33No. We tried this already with Java applets. The fact that MS didn't cancel Silverlight the instant HTML5 started getting traction is yet another sign that they just can't follow what's going on (having made it to begin with is another).
Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#34I was about to answer no, but apparently I do: http://www.silverlightversion.com/ Does it install with Windows Update automatically or something?
Same here. I honestly don't recall installing it, but apparently I must have at some point.
Flip4Mac (WMV codec) installer comes with persona non grata.
Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I guess he was making a site to get the Silverlight version, not whether it was installed or not.
Perhaps he is a Javascript programmer who thinks that zero means no.
Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#36Haven't been near Silverlight and never plan to. Did tell someone to install Moonlight once so that they could watch ITV (UK) online, but the only alternative there was to pay the BBC a license fee for watching other people's channels (get_iplayer is perfect for the BBC's own)
Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#37All sorts of apps sneak it onto my computer, just like Growl(which I had anyway). I just stopped bothering every time. So I think I'm using the version that shipped with Flip4mac on the last update.
Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#38There 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…
AFAIK netflix requires silverlight nowadays.
Re: Poll: Do you have Silverlight installed?
#39No. We tried this already with Java applets. The fact that MS didn't cancel Silverlight the instant HTML5 started getting traction is yet another sign that they just can't follow what's going on (having made it to begin with is another).
From what I hear, it's basically their dev platform for WP7, in the same way that Apple hasn't canceled CocoaTouch and google hasn't binned Android. HTML5 is not the be all end all of the internet (yet).