Comments on: More details on Silverlight support in Opera

By: Asbjørn Ulsberg

Asbjørn Ulsberg — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:27:08 +0000

I guess it’s timely and fairly on-topic to mention Implementing Silverlight on Linux in 21 Days, considering the amount of people screaming about non-Linux support, license incompatibilities etc., and claming that Silverlight will never be supported on Linux. Well, now it is.

With that Open Source implementation, done by the fabulous Mono guys, I assume that we’ll see BSD, OS X and Solaris support fairly quickly.

By: comnut

comnut — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:14:56 +0000

- but then again I do surf a lot of ‘tech news’ websites, lots of pics of kit…

By: comnut

comnut — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:08:29 +0000

So you’re a web designer?? hardly a ‘normal user’….

By: David Vallner

David Vallner — Fri, 11 May 2007 13:58:31 +0000

Roughly 1000 GIF files for me, 500 PNGs, and 200 JPGs for me. You were saying what the top will be?

That’s from a month of surfing onna 20MB cache.

(The GIF number is probably bloated, because the high compression ratio and limited palette makes the format -excellent- for webpage design elements, of which you need a bajillion per website.)

By: comnut

comnut — Fri, 11 May 2007 08:46:24 +0000

yes, how about a better expo for us, cutting out all the PR stuff??

It looks very much like the promo for the PNG format - it was made when the GIF format looked like it was going to be costly for all its users!!

that has not happened, so there is not that much sign of it about.. just look in your cache after a busy days surfing, and count the number of each graphic file type! top will be JPG, then GIF…

The problem is not really MS, it is about ‘mega-big companies, with a finger in *every* pie…

Adobe seems good so far, just doing documents and flash.. they depend on that market, so sould not mess up…

Google doing the same, with web search & tools…

and what would you say, when a company starts treading on the area used by the above?? especially when it has so many other ‘cashmakers’ that it need not be so careful of it’s property that adobe and google are???

By: Investor

Investor — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:08:53 +0000

@cap,
Have no clue about this tech stuff. Just read Silverlight competes with Adobe, runs in a browser, and Opera supports it…

Well, Wii got the Opera browser. Can it run Silverlight ?, if so, would that improve (video) performance (compared to using Adobe flash 7) ?

Wii got potential, but probably needs a better video sollution to make it big. (Ref. estimated owned by 30% of households by 2011). Waiting for Adobe, to develop flash 8 and 9 is … bad news.

Thus wondering if Silverlight is… good news.

That’s all

By: cap

cap — Fri, 04 May 2007 09:58:12 +0000

What does Silverlight have to do with Flash on Wii?

By: Investor

Investor — Fri, 04 May 2007 04:53:10 +0000

Daniel,
sorry, I don’t speak the Tech language
Guess you are saying… On the Wii, Adobe is Boss… neither Opera, Nintendo, nor Silverlight can change that ?

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Fri, 04 May 2007 03:46:29 +0000

Investor, yup. I meant bottom right.

With regards to the Wii, I was wondering the same. But if the Wii requires a Flash SDK, and not a plugin, I wonder if the same requirement holds true for Silverlight too.

By: Investor

Investor — Fri, 04 May 2007 03:20:47 +0000

Well, bottom *right* corner on above image.
(Probably unintended to leave Opera out of first browser list)

Anyway, wondering, does Silverlight have any implications on the Nintendo Wii browser’s flash performance (currently Adobe Flash 7, which is limited)… ???

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:38:43 +0000

kyleabaker, they do mention “Opera” on the bottom left corner.

By: kyleabaker

kyleabaker — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:18:48 +0000

It’s kind of funny that Microsoft is supposedly working well with Opera on this and yet they fail to even mention Opera on the Browser list. Sure there is a logo, but how many people who’ve never used Opera are gonna see the logo and think..oh I can use Opera for this, I should try it out! Still Microsoft being cheap if you ask me, lol.

By: Øyvind Ø

Øyvind Ø — Thu, 03 May 2007 22:35:13 +0000

I agree with David Storey, never say never about anything. Mono has helped out before, so why not again like they say, and Flex went open source under the Mozilla Public License not long ago. Who would have guessed that up front? - ØØ -

By: silverbluff

silverbluff — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:42:32 +0000

“he Silverlight licensing is totally incompatible with the GPL, so it could never ship with Linux.”

“>So, it’s not gonna work on linux?

Yes, in wet dreams, where everyone is happy and there is no religion….”

Wow, someone go tell De Icaza and the rest of mono developers that they are wasting their time!.

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9714669-7.html

Jesus christ, it’s not really that hard to be a little bit informed, is it?.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:58:47 +0000

I was going to also state that Flash is very much closed source. So the simple anti-MS comments are just that. Your alternatives are equal, you just automaticaly hate anything branded MS.