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Any site that uses Silverlight better have a real good justification for using it over HTML5/CSS3/JS.
The Steam hardware survey: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey now includes software, which includes Silverlight.
I'm impressed that 3.21% of Windows users with Steam installed don't have the Flash Player.
With ad banners in flash, and several per page, all it takes is one poorly written flash app to take down all the browser tabs I've got open.
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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.
With standards gaining ground, the last thing I want to see is for Microsoft-controlled technology to again gain dominance on the web.
So, no. I do not want their shiny toys. We can build better ones without them, and they won't contain lead.
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To be fair, if you wrote a browser plugin like Silverlight, wouldn't you do the majority of your projects in it?
The effort to port it to Flash or JavaScript as a fallback mechanism is hardly a major undertaking for a company like Microsoft. That they're doing this when that means blocking out a huge portion of users on Bing Maps when their main competitor has no such portability problems I think says a great deal about their priorities.
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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.
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 EDIT: that is the code they are using as of this posting
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"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-browser games, whereas Silverlight just wants to "enhance" my viewing of MSDN." I have played quite a few Silverlight games. Why the attitude towards something that adds more functionality?
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…
Sure open standards and all but the user may prefer something totally different. They may not want the fans on the back of their computer to spin up every time they go to an interactive website.
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…
Ryanairs route map requires Silverlight. I wonder if whatever Microsoft paid for that is more than lost revenue from customers exploring potential destinations.
I say this is half in jest, but wonder how much of that is true.