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Re: Silverlight 3D better than Flash?

by Mark I. Ross :: Rate this Message:

Our experience was similar, we built a video player that supports both
flash and windows media content, for flash we use a flash video player and
for windows media we use a silverlight video player (just instantiating
the player as required).
What we found after checking out stats is that the majority of users would
rather not see the content than install silverlight. And we are talking
major network tv shows here (yes I work for a broadcaster), not just
random UGC videos like youtube or whatever.

We also get a ridiculous of email on a daily basis asking us why we
support silverlight, that don't we know microsoft is evil, and how dare we
even have silverlight content.

So, yeah. Users simply don't trust or like Microsoft enough to install
silverlight. Everyone already has flash so it's really a no brainer.

Just my 2 cents!

Cheers,
mark

> recently:
> my agent - hey I've got this great job! do you know Silverlight?
> me - wtf is silverlight? does anyone actually use that!?
> my agent - their client is microsoft
> me - lol
>
> that's my experience of it ;-)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve D
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> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 7:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Papervision3D] Silverlight 3D better than Flash?
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> I'll start developing for Silverlight when it has true cross-platform
> capability.
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> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Caudwell
> <caudwell@...> wrote:
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> I've not seen much discussion on Google here yet - but it looks like
> Sliverlight 3 3D is going to be pretty good. Overall if it wasn't for
> the
> browser penetration I think Silverlight is starting to look quite
> attractive.
>
> Anyone had any thoughts on this?
>
> I'm interested in your thoughts on the performance, interaction and
> aliasing
> in Silverlight compared to Papervision.
>
>
>
> I first got interested in 3D stuff when Microsoft talked about Avalon
> a long
> time ago but even this new Silverlight 3 isn't as powerful as that.
>
> I'm thinking Flash and Papervision is still the way to go whilst Flash
> has
> the best browser penetration...
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