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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 t
by avar 16y ago
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.
- mcav 16y agoYou can't port Silverlight to Flash or Javascript because Flash and Javascript don't provide direct system access needed to emulate many of Silverlight's features.