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Microsoft: Silverlight Now on 60% of All Internet Devices
NewTeeVee ^
| March 25, 2010 at 8:30 AM PT
| Ryan Lawler
Posted on 03/25/2010 11:51:23 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
Some of these devices will start migrating towards HTML 5. HOwever in my opinion silverlight is pretty good and I have never had an issue with it, unlike Flash.
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posted on
03/25/2010 11:54:20 AM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
To: SmokingJoe
Another Microsoft piece of cr**?
I needeth it not.
My household has been Microsoft free for years now, and we’ve rebuilt nothing, crashed nothing...just computing competency - something unattainable by the Yugo of operating systems.
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posted on
03/25/2010 11:58:37 AM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: SmokingJoe; ShadowAce
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posted on
03/25/2010 11:59:18 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: aft_lizard
Aye. Flash has been horrible in the past couple years. I think their success went to their head.
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posted on
03/25/2010 11:59:25 AM PDT
by
Ingtar
(Congress: proof that Entropy trumps Evolution)
To: Da Coyote
Silverlight is actually pretty decent. It will allow professional developers to stop having to mess with the unfinished college project known at HTML.
It works quite well and scales excellent.
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posted on
03/25/2010 12:00:20 PM PDT
by
surfer
(To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
To: Da Coyote
I needeth it not. As I understand it, there is already an Open Source version available called Moonlight, which was developed with MS's blessing.
The tech isn't evil, even if you believe the company is.
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posted on
03/25/2010 12:01:19 PM PDT
by
TChris
("Hello", the politician lied.)
To: SmokingJoe
Flash truly is garbage. Still no 64bit flash for Windows.. After Vista and now 7 64bit are fairly common and will just get moreso as 32bit fades away. It’s been ‘coming’ for 3 years.
Also, the performance is dog slow in general. Silverlight is a far FAR better product. It’s too bad Flash got so embedded, I hope that will change. I’m not a big Microsoft fan, but if Flash would die off things would be much, much better.
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posted on
03/25/2010 12:03:29 PM PDT
by
Tolsti2
To: SmokingJoe
I think I hear diabolical laughter coming from my PC.....
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posted on
03/25/2010 12:05:25 PM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: Da Coyote
I knew that was coming. You guys are so reliably predictable. Ah well.
To: TChris
He says he needeth it not, which in layman’s terms means he refuses to even listen to anything and would prefer just to insult if need be.
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posted on
03/25/2010 12:06:25 PM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
To: aft_lizard
Silverlight worked pretty well for the NBC site for the 2008 Olympics, but yeah, HTML5 is gaining ground fast.
To: SmokingJoe
Netflix switching to it for their online movies probably helped.
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posted on
03/25/2010 12:21:14 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
To: aft_lizard
He "needeth it not"? Sounds like the Puritan Reverend Mr. John Wilson in Hawthorne's
The Scarlet Letter, LOL!
I guess the Reverend wouldn't listen, either.
Fanatics! What can you do?
To: E. Pluribus Unum
To: Da Coyote
My household has been Microsoft free for years now, and we’ve rebuilt nothing, crashed nothing...just computing competency - something unattainable by the Yugo of operating systems. We're not Microsoft-free yet (even my cellphone) though for a couple of cases where I suspect flaky electronics Windows hasn't been bad. Just slow.
Linux has become pretty good, though Xubuntu 9.10 was massively unstable on my system. (Xubuntu 9.04 works extremely well.)
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posted on
03/25/2010 12:31:18 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
To: aft_lizard
What issues have you had with Flash? Working on a graphing component which utilizes right now.
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posted on
03/25/2010 12:33:02 PM PDT
by
MarkeyD
(Obama is a victim of Affirmative Action)
To: SmokingJoe
Silverlight is being compared to Flash here, but I was under the impression it was a Java competitor. I would give anything to have something better than Java. I use it on my stock trading site and Java sucks.
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posted on
03/25/2010 12:33:12 PM PDT
by
chuckles
To: MarkeyD
Mostly flash based ad’s. I have often had a website completely stop responding when I go to them or slow to a snails pace. Often whenever Firefox memory leaks(hey Mozilla that issue still exists!)one single flash ad will bring the whole browser to a halt.
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posted on
03/25/2010 12:45:13 PM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
To: chuckles
They are all competitors to each other java vs flash vs silverlight.
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posted on
03/25/2010 12:47:23 PM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)
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