ms silverlight?

Fire Wizard · 3 Jun 2008 at 14:09

Hiya everyone,

Sorry to bump this thread but just a quick question.

Any reason why you still have to have Adboe Flash Player installed to watch videos on YouTube even though I have installed Microsoft Silverlight? I am using Internet Explorer 7.

Thanks.

MarcLister · 3 Jun 2008 at 14:24

Because Youtube uses Flash players? :confused:

Burnsy2023 · 3 Jun 2008 at 14:29

Fire Wizard said:
Hiya everyone,

Sorry to bump this thread but just a quick question.

Any reason why you still have to have Adboe Flash Player installed to watch videos on YouTube even though I have installed Microsoft Silverlight? I am using Internet Explorer 7.

Thanks.

Silverlight requires the page to be coded using silverlight APIs. Silverlight and flash aren't cross compatible.

Burnsy

Fire Wizard · 4 Jun 2008 at 10:35

MarcLister said:
Because Youtube uses Flash players?

Hi MarcLister, sorry, the question I asked wasn’t really what I intended to say, it kind of came out wrong.

I was just thinking along the lines off, if Microsoft Silverlight is an alternative to Adobe Flash Player then I would have thought that websites such as YouTube would be absolutely fine with that said alternative i.e. Microsoft Silverlight. Though, I guess that's down to websites such as YouTube to support for Microsoft Silverlight.

Burnsy2023 said:
Silverlight requires the page to be coded using silverlight APIs. Silverlight and flash aren't cross compatible.

Thanks Burnsy for your reply as well.

NathanE · 4 Jun 2008 at 11:02

There is a lot of politics involved. YouTube is owned by Google... so it will never in a million years convert over to Silverlight from Flash. Google and Microsoft are arch enemies.

Microsoft will struggle to push Silverlight on business deals alone and will really have to concentrate on making it better than Flash by a long mile. It is already pretty darn good but it can and will get even better.

MarcLister · 4 Jun 2008 at 11:04

Fire Wizard said:
Hi MarcLister, sorry, the question I asked wasn’t really what I intended to say, it kind of came out wrong.

I was just thinking along the lines off, if Microsoft Silverlight is an alternative to Adobe Flash Player then I would have thought that websites such as YouTube would be absolutely fine with that said alternative i.e. Microsoft Silverlight. Though, I guess that's down to websites such as YouTube to support for Microsoft Silverlight.

Ah right.

tolien · 4 Jun 2008 at 16:27

If Silverlight worked on *nix (without the licensing crap Adobe has with Flash) and worked well on anything other than IE on Windows, Google could switch and keep face.
Adobe's every bit the Evil Empire, and their support for anything other than IE on Windows is awful...

Fire Wizard · 4 Jun 2008 at 22:47

NathanE said:
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That all makes sense.

MarcLister said:
Ah right.

Indeed. Just carrying on from my previous post. I asked the question that I did, which didn't come out exactly how I wanted it to, because I thought I would have to enable a certain setting so I could use Microsoft Silverlight as a replacement for Adobe Flash Payer.

None the less though, thanks for your help.

MarcLister · 4 Jun 2008 at 23:03

Fire Wizard said:
Indeed. Just carrying on from my previous post. I asked the question that I did, which didn't come out exactly how I wanted it to, because I thought I would have to enable a certain setting so I could use Microsoft Silverlight as a replacement for Adobe Flash Payer.

None the less though, thanks for your help.

No probs.