how is this thing even useful to users at all? it's just an extra thing to have to install to see the couple things on the internet that actually bother to use silverlight
did microsoft actually believe they were going to compete with flash with this abomination? and then there's html5 to consider, as well.
Quote from: Suigintou on August 04, 2011, 01:40:39 PM
and then there's html5 to consider, as well.
MS is actually a big supporter of HTML5.
The only thing I dislike about Silverlight is that there's only Mac and Windows version :(
Quote from: TheSequel on August 04, 2011, 01:53:59 PM
MS is actually a big supporter of HTML5.
this leads me to wonder even more why silverlight exists
it's not that it's inherently bad in itself, it's just that we don't need extra
things to have to install when said content could have probably been rendered just as well with flash
i agree
Silverlight works a lot better than Flash on OS X.
Flash turns my laptop into a space heater and chokes when streaming 480P stuff.
Silverlight can stream HD content on Netflix without an issue.
Yeah really the only thing that bothers me about it is that there is no Linux version. :(
Foo--Microsoft should have been outlawed the first time Apple sued it for patent infringement. The ruling was made that software couldn't be patented. As a result, Microsoft invented this thing called "intellectual property" so that anybody would be unable to commit the same screwing that Microsoft did to Apple when Microsoft "developed" the first ever Windows OS based on Apple's intellectual property.
Quote from: Clara Listensprechen on August 04, 2011, 04:03:45 PM
Foo--Microsoft should have been outlawed the first time Apple sued it for patent infringement. The ruling was made that software couldn't be patented. As a result, Microsoft invented this thing called "intellectual property" so that anybody would be unable to commit the same screwing that Microsoft did to Apple when Microsoft "developed" the first ever Windows OS based on Apple's intellectual property.
What? What country are you from? In the US software
can be patented.
By the way, Apple is around today because MS invested $150 million in Apple.
Quote from: applesauce on August 04, 2011, 02:48:16 PM
Yeah really the only thing that bothers me about it is that there is no Linux version. :(
Doesn't moonlight work well?
Except for Netflix but that isn't Silverlight's fault. DRM is the reason for that.
Quote from: TheSequel on August 04, 2011, 06:24:00 PM
What? What country are you from? In the US software can be patented.
By the way, Apple is around today because MS invested $150 million in Apple.
It can NOW. That wasn't the case back in the Court Case That Changed Everything...which occurred in a U.S. court. I take it that this was before your time, kid. ;)
Apple is worth what it is today because Jobs not only took Apple Corp down a niche path (that's what he did In The Beginning, too) but he and his company were part of an anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft and won cross-platform rights to Microsoft's source code as part of the settlement. Revenge was doubtlessly extraordinarily sweet in this case.
Quote from: Khadafi on August 05, 2011, 08:11:03 AM
Doesn't moonlight work well?
Except for Netflix but that isn't Silverlight's fault. DRM is the reason for that.
What else would I want Silverlight for?
If there was a native Linux Silverlight then people on Linux wouldn't have to worry about the DRM.
Quote from: Clara Listensprechen on August 04, 2011, 04:03:45 PM
Foo--Microsoft should have been outlawed the first time Apple sued it for patent infringement. The ruling was made that software couldn't be patented. As a result, Microsoft invented this thing called "intellectual property" so that anybody would be unable to commit the same screwing that Microsoft did to Apple when Microsoft "developed" the first ever Windows OS based on Apple's intellectual property.
I thought that the case that allowed software patents was Diamon v. Diehr (1981).
How did MS invent IP? The North Germanic's Confederation's constitution defended IP. Oh by the way, that was back in the 1860s.
I take it this was before your time, kid. ;)
Outlawed to the stars!
But I think the only thing I've run across recently that used silverlight was the halo waypoint site. I remember when it came out and I installed it, but then it was never used :(
I thought the point of Silverlight was that it does HD video a lot better than flash does. I agree with your complaint but it doesn't bother me as much as it used to.
silverlight usually performs much better than flash for me. if anything, adobe's crap should be outlawed goodjob;
Quote from: Maester86 on August 15, 2011, 03:27:24 PM
silverlight usually performs much better than flash for me. if anything, adobe's crap should be outlawed goodjob;
or simply improved
Quote from: Maester86 on August 15, 2011, 03:27:24 PM
silverlight usually performs much better than flash for me. if anything, adobe's crap should be outlawed goodjob;
then i will have learned actionscript for
nothing :'(
Quote from: Thyme on August 15, 2011, 04:54:14 PM
then i will have learned actionscript for nothing :'(
Good.
actionscript smithicide;
Quote from: Thyme on August 16, 2011, 10:25:37 AM
trace("wow rude");
i agree smithicide;
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
printf("Stop using code in posts.\nIt are so dum.\n");
}