Oh Silverlight, how I hate thee so! August 23, 2011
Posted by truthspew in Uncategorized.trackback
I’m getting rather annoyed by Microsoft Silverlight.
Apparently it’s a dead product within Microsoft. But they forced Netflix into using it and I must say it’s even WORSE than Netflix’s Flash based player of old.
And now that they’re quietly sweeping it under the rug I hear they are doing so because of HTML 5′s video capability. That would be fine and dandy except there are very few fully HTML 5 compliant browsers out there. Sure, Firefox supports a limited set at the moment.
So please, please, speed the development on HTML 5 compliant browsers and to Netflix, get your web site coded up for HTML 5 and be done with that CPU hog Silverlight. It should be called Red Light because that is the color I see when your player stutters along.
It’s one of my absolute pet peeves when you get forced to use crap software and they make it difficult to get out of it even though they know it’s crap.