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Duke Dougal
Duke Dougal

Reputation:

Silverlight browser support does not seem to be ubiquitous?

We have been using Adobe Flex for a major project but it's just too slow.

We're considering switching to Silverlight.

The problem seems to be that Silverlight is not as widely supported by browsers as Flex/Flash is.

For example I tried to access the Silverlight showcase using Safari for Windows but it didn't work.

A web RIA platform surely has to have browser ubiquity as its foundation?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 568

Answers (2)

Vilx-
Vilx-

Reputation: 106912

IMHO Flash is the only thing that comes near perfection. Microsoft is just supporting a few major browsers.

Upvotes: 2

Michael Stum
Michael Stum

Reputation: 180924

Browser Plugins are essentially native applications, so you essentially need a Plugin for each architecture.

For example, there is no 64-Bit Flash Plugin for Windows, so I always have to use 32-Bit IE for that. I also believe that there is no Linux-PPC support, but it's been a while since I've looked at that. And that new JavaFX stuff from Sun also does not run on many platforms and browsers.

For a list of supported Platforms, Wikipedia has a neat table:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverlight#Compatibility

Upvotes: 3

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