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Mac and Linux users - your experiences with Silverlight
15 years ago
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Hi everyone, I'm weighing up Flash and Silverlight for video playback. Maybe I'm just derping my way through interfacing with Flash, but it seems as though whenever I embed video I must use Sorenson's implementation of H.264 for encoding. It looks horrendous in my opinion, and I'm trying to see if Silverlight might provide better access to superior codecs like VC-1. I'm still looking into how portable VC-1 is as a codec, but first thing's first...
If you run a Mac OS or Linux distribution, and you've used Silverlight applications in-browser, have you ever had any problems getting it to run? It appears to work for IE, FireFox, Safari, Chrome and also Opera from my own experience. On Linux, I think it's possible to get it to work with Opera, FF and Konqueror (maybe chromium too via the chrome implementation - I'm not sure). I wonder if anyone's had incompatibility/poor loading/glitches or any of the sort.
If you have anything notable, please chime in.
If you run a Mac OS or Linux distribution, and you've used Silverlight applications in-browser, have you ever had any problems getting it to run? It appears to work for IE, FireFox, Safari, Chrome and also Opera from my own experience. On Linux, I think it's possible to get it to work with Opera, FF and Konqueror (maybe chromium too via the chrome implementation - I'm not sure). I wonder if anyone's had incompatibility/poor loading/glitches or any of the sort.
If you have anything notable, please chime in.
Thanks again, your comments are always insightful.
And hey, what's with all the missing comments in journals around this time? What on earth happened?
What happened? FA happened!
When FA happens you just gotta find a stick, scrape it off, and keep on walkin'.
Flash can do most of what I'd like. What I'd like being video playback and simple gameplay. The likes of adventure games, graphic novels, that sort. I've seen much more complex stuff done in it. But that video, I've got to work that out.
But I was also thinking about the Linux port of Flash. Or, that is, the x86 and x86-64 compatible Linux port of Flash (point being, Linux runs on plenty of other hardware than 386-derivatives, but you won't get a Flash port).
Don't get me wrong; I wouldn't presume to demand they do ports for everything - that's their business. But the fact that it is theirs and only their business also why I prefer things to be open, because then, if you want to, you can do it yourself and make it your own business.