February 17, 201016 yr Hi guys, Compared to the more established Flash, how many users actually have Silverlight on their computers? Is there any point in going down the Silverlight route (yet) for a website? Cheers! Martin
February 17, 201016 yr I don't have silverlight installed on my machine, but if more sites start to use it, then I will download it. At the moment, Silverlight feels really heavy as a DL. They need to reduce the filesize of the standalone player for people in my opinion. I haven't tried to build anything with it yet - but I may experiment over the coming months
February 17, 201016 yr Silver what? I've never yet come across any site where it's required me to download whatever plugin it needs.
February 17, 201016 yr Author Thanks - yeah that's pretty much what I thought. It doesn't seem to be as ubiquitous as MS claim...
February 17, 201016 yr Undoutably people are using Silverlight but the amount of sites that use it is probably very small compared to the total number of sites on the web. Even if 1,000,000 sites use it that's still a very small number in the big scheme of things
February 18, 201016 yr I think Silverlight was launched in 2007, and despite using the web every day I've never come across a site using it.
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