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I went to watch the video titled "Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing Async – Simplifying asynchronous programming", and I got a message saying "To view this content,
by akamaka 16y ago
I went to watch the video titled "Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing Async – Simplifying asynchronous programming", and I got a message saying "To view this content, please install Silverlight".
I hate getting involved in bashing any company, including Microsoft, but this is just infuriating, and it feels like an insult. I have had to write web applications which encode video into multiple formats to ensure that visitors to my website doesn't have any problem viewing the videos. It's a hassle, but also not terribly hard.
I have a good friend who works for Microsoft, and I respect the people there, and I know that there's no shortage of talent, and no reason why they can't implement video formats that I can view on my Mac.
I just don't get why they want to force me to install Silverlight.
- kevingadd 16y agoSilverlight works on the mac. Quicktime might be included with your mac, but it's still a browser plugin just like Silverlight and Flash and it's not included with windows computers.
- kylecordes 16y agoThe annoyance is that a plugin is required for content that is quite readily publishable as a file type that could easily be processed by many brands of computers and browsers. Video is such content, in 2010. When I publish video, even if I happen to use a Flash plugin viewer (for convenience), I usually also offer a link to the video file.
- MarkSweep 16y agoThey are using some sort of a fancy streaming protocol that auto-adjusts the quality to match your bandwidth. While this sounds like a cool idea on the face of it, it ends up meaning I can't force it into HQ which I know I have the bandwidth for. Thus the code is all blurred out.