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Big question is: will Silverlight run on websites not whitelisted by Microsoft? Otherwise it's a dirty trick.
by micheljansen 14y ago
Big question is: will Silverlight run on websites not whitelisted by Microsoft? Otherwise it's a dirty trick.
- isani 14y agoNo, Silverlight doesn't run on IE10 Metro. I just tested that it doesn't run on an arbitrary site, and I don't think it's possible to even whitelist it.
- manojlds 14y agoSilverlight is more dead than Flash and MS killed itby alienating Silverlight developers.
- zapdrive 14y agoThe only thing keeping silverlight alive is Netflix. I wonder why they use it in first place.
- aidos 14y agoThey use it for the DRM. In their case it's a necessary evil.
- ttrashh 14y agoDRM, better streaming, C# and the .Net framework
- 46Bit 14y agoI have to admit though: Netflix's (Silverlight) player is remarkably stable compared to anything I've ever tried in Flash.
- adrr 14y agoSilverlight can enforce protected streams to the output devices. I couldn't play netflix streaming movies on my old monitor since it didn't support HDCP.
- rythie 14y agoSome sort of deal with Microsoft I would assume.
- fakeer 14y ago.NET. Almost everybody uses some version of Windows or other and so .NET is there more or less.
- cooldeal 14y agoNo, they had to kill it because the iPad wouldn't run browser plugins. They then transitioned to a plugin free HTML5 mobile web to help all developers.