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Flash 10 is available for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, Mac OSX, Linux and Solaris (x86 and SPARC). So, Silverlight is far less 'open' than Flash.
Linux users' only option is Moonlight, which only Novell can build due to the non-open source agreement with Microsoft, and only supports Silverlight 2.0 stuff and doesn't support it perfectly. Silverlight is closed source and ties *heavily* into the OS. That's a really poor customer/user experience and really the only reason to do it is if you are paid a truck load of money to do so. Same thing happened last Olympics when NBC's own stats showed that 1/2 of visitors didn't have Silverlight installed and simply left. But it means 58% of your users can't view your content. Hardly anyone else uses Silverlight because of its low penetration level. That's really it in terms of Silverlight. The exception is NBC Universal (which Microsoft has a partnership with and a joint venture MSNBC). Netflix does Silverlight (and had the Xbox 360 exclusivity for a while) because of Microsoft's ownership stake (MS owns 10% of Netflix). That's why YouTube, Hulu, DailyMotion, CNN and everyone else in the world does Flash. It's available, in its latest version, for every single platform. 42% penetration is basically useless (you're going to turn away 58% of your visitors?).
#ADOBE SILVERLIGHT DOWNLOAD PORTABLE#
It won't be truly portable (it's gonna leave all kinds of stuff behind), and it may or may not work with 'licensed' content, but for folks who really want it, I'll give it a shot.įor a website supporting a customerbase, you want *BIG* penetration. And it's heavily tied to the OS itself.Īll that said, I'm going to try a crack at a live installer for it. It's really only used on a couple sites that are either owned or paid by Microsoft. And the "open source" Moonlight implementation which is not fully Silverlight-compatible is patent-encumbered, not fully open source and can only be distributed by Novell.
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Most home users are afraid to install it. It's less than 42% compared to Flash which is ~97%, so no company that wants to market something to the public will use Silverlight (Version 3, which the above sites use for video, has under 30% market penetration). Silverlight's penetration is really poor. It's basically only Netflix for their watch instantly function (because Microsoft owns a big chunk of Netflix and has people on their board) and the Olympics (because Microsoft pays them a huge chunk of cash to only use Silverlight and not Flash or Quicktime). Use of Silverlight exclusively is *very* rare on websites. Silverlight is not open source or open in any way shape or form and Microsoft has no intention of making it so according to Sam Ramji, director of platform technology strategy at Microsoft.
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