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Why should I go through the hassle to evaluate something I won't potentially use? Even the intro video is in silverlight. Perhaps if it were in flash I could
by jawngee 18y ago
Why should I go through the hassle to evaluate something I won't potentially use? Even the intro video is in silverlight. Perhaps if it were in flash I could make some determination if it's worth the hassle.
And what's the point of the hassle in the first place? Someone has yet to explain why SilverLight is better for me as the consumer than Flex/Flash.
- pclark 18y agoI think having a flash tutorial (as well as a silverlight one) is a great idea.
- stormideas 18y agoThat's sounding good to me. Going to add detect for Silverlight and switch in a flash version of the intro video if Silverlight isn't present. Thanks!
- axod 18y agoor, just a flash one, since it's what is commonly used for videos.
- jmatt 18y agoSince when has HN stuck with the defacto technology... Ok, this may age me some. But people said exactly the same thing when Java and Flash first came out... if you go back far enough they were also intrusive annoying frustrating bug ridden technologies. I'm not directly supporting SilverLight. I'm just supporting as many competitive web platforms as possible. They all add something, even the evil Microsoft ones. That being said Microsoft is losing the battle with that horrible SilverLight install. It needs to be as easy to install as Flash. It should be as close to transparent as possible.
- smysore 18y agoI installed it so I could watch Netflix content instantly