This works with Safari and Firefox 48.0.2. I had to reinstall silverlight, but Ive.
Microsoft Silverlight What Is It Mac OS X 10So what’s a developer to make of Microsoft’s messaging (or lackThereof) about Silverlight at its premiere developer conference?I asked Bob Muglia, the Microsoft President in charge of the company’sServer and tools business, that very question and got what I considerTo be the clearest answer yet about how Microsoft is evolving its“Silverlight is our development platform for Windows Phone,” he said.Silverlight also has some “sweet spots” in media and line-of-businessBut when it comes to touting Silverlight as Microsoft’s vehicle forDelivering a cross-platform runtime, “our strategy has shifted,”“But HTML is the only true cross platform solution for everything,Including (Apple’s) iOS platform,” Muglia said. I am using the latest version of Waterfox for Mac OS X 10.8.5. I cant watch my Netflix subscription under Waterfox as the Microsoft Silverlight Plugin doesnt appear to be working with Waterfox.To be perfectly honest, Silverlight is a great piece of technology. Both Silverlight and Wave are aimed at taking the internet experience to the next level. The real interesting contrast to us, as independent software developers, is the way developers responded to Silverlight as opposed to the reaction yesterday to Google Wave. Inevitable comparisons are made between the hugely enthusiastic developer response (including from us at Zoho) to Google Wave yesterday with the relatively tepid reponse to Microsoft’s new search engine Bing. They now encourage HTML5 usage as evidenced by Windows8 which won't even be able to directly run Silverlight at all.Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful tool for creating and delivering rich Internet applications and media experiences on the Web. Silverlight 5 builds on the foundation of Silverlight 4 for building business applications and premium media experiences.That was when IE was way behind Netscape and was trying to catch up. Do you really, really believe their promise? Let’s recap some ancient history here: Microsoft used to have IE for Solaris and even had a beta of IE for Linux. Take Silverlight: Microsoft pledged that they will always support Silverlight on Mac and Linux, and on browsers other than IE. Microsoft just has so much bad karma in this industry that I cannot imagine a company like us trusting them on much of anything. It would have all the technical specifications published openly. It would have been a fully open source product from Google, with a very liberal open source license (BSD or Apache). Apple’s resurgence – based on design prowess, not platform dominance – and Vista’s failure, have demonstrated that convincingly.Let’s try to imagine what a Google Silverlight would have been. I am glad they adopted that strategy, because that strategy eventually paved the way for Firefox (and Safari and Chrome …), and together those browsers have rendered the operating system utterly irrelevant. In fact, Microsoft intentionally pulled IE on other platforms, because it was clear to them that making the web experience suck on other platforms was a way to keep Windows firmly entrenched. ![]() I’m not entirely sure what this particular writer had in mind when he made his comparison (and he is comparing by virtue of the title) between Silverlight vs. Could Google abuse its position? Well, I am sure they understand karma!To understand the “politics” of this discussion, slash comparison, is to understand that everyone involved, Google, Zoho, Microsoft, and every single contributor has a vested “self-interest”. We believe in an open web, there is plenty of opportunity for all of us. That is why we at Zoho are firmly aligned with them, even if they are our primary competitor. Fair or not, the impression independent developers get is that Microsoft would prefer the web to stay crippled, so pesky applications that challenge their cash cows can stay frozen as “online Wordpad”, as Bill Gates put it.That brings us back to Google: today, it is Google which is driving web standards forward. I know, IE was once known for web innovation, including AJAX – but that was the time Microsoft was really trying to catch up and beat Netscape. Google Wave, as an always on, collaborative framework is also extremely compelling and significant, but is not yet ready for production. Success! Whether we are discussing personal or business success matters little… everyone wants to know that they are relevant and successful in their space! Silverlight as a cross-platform rich client plugin is very relevant and very real. So in whose interest does “open source” really serve? Well, we all know the answer to that… anyone who wants to be a stakeholder in the technology in question.I suggest that everyone remember that all the players in this thread are motivated by the same goal. Will Microsoft embrace an open source mentality? I think they can and should… Does open source breed better innovation? I think it can… at the very least it puts more players in the game. I think open source is a great idea, but so is world peace. Google Wave starts with the premise that everything we do in collaboration or communication is tied to a single “kind†of technology, electronic mail. In my experience most new technology isn’t really new, it’s simply an old idea rethought. In this way, business and users (developers) will determine the success or failure of any technology over time.As an information systems consultant for both development and infrastructure I have to say that Google Wave smacks of something old. However, the winner will not be determined by whether it is “open source” or not, but by availability, extensibility, and most of all by usability. It will be interesting to watch the evolution of both of these technologies. But, without a rich interface it is simply some cool backend technology that only a developer would care about. Perhaps the Wave framework will overcome the Notes deficiencies. It was a pain in the rear to maintain, had some nasty user side effects, I personally hated it as an e-mail client, and to me epitomized the phrase that a good screwdriver makes a very poor hammer! It had its uses, was very secure, but was what I classify as “junk†because it never gained wide acceptance for all of its professed uses. Well, that sounds a lot like Lotus Notes to me!I was never a huge proponent of Lotus Notes. Word for mac wont openIs a Mac really better than a PC? I don’t really think so, but the Mac’s look really cool! In the end, Mac, PC, whatever… they are simply becoming nothing more than modern terminal emulators anyway! Wave needs more than promises to become relevant.I was never a huge proponent of Lotus Notes.
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