Comments on: Microsoft Silverlight – Light up the web. Really?

By: Jeff Margenau

Jeff Margenau — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:41:45 +0000

I am tasked with writing our 508 compliance standard for Silverlight which is what brought me to this site through Google.

I am heartened to hear people mention standards. Because it is standards that make the Web work and it a lack of standards that can destroy it.

Simply put the Web should be accessible to all and that can only approach reality when standards and protocols are agreed upon and followed.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:16:10 +0000

Agree with brudinie and everyone supporting web standards. Silverlight is a bad joke from M$, just a different sort of flash plugin (from the user side). I just don’t understand as we, web developers, could be spreading such a positive bullshit about a crap technology from company which is always going against the open web :(
And if you think that SL has a good crossbrowser support, try viewing websites on any older PC and OS (linux or windows).
And this is what I got from the MS website while trying the right plugin stuff:

Microsoft Silverlight may not be supported on your computer’s hardware or operating system.

Hope this is not going to be the future web..

By: brudinie

brudinie — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:47:15 +0000

Silverlight is a joke.
When Sir Tim created the internet he did so with the philosophy that information was to be made available via standards so that it would work independently of platform.
So basically, Silverlight is nothing less than a Microsoft tactic to try to own the web- pretty much the same tactic as integrating a poor standards compliant browser (ie) in to their operating system. The majority of conscientious developers want to develop apps that will work on anything and thats why standards compliant browsers have eaten in to Microsoft’s market share. IE8 isn’t bad standards wise but still has a long way to go in catching up to other browsers on the ACID3 test.
I use Ubuntu – Moonlight (the Novel version) is rubbish and will always be 1.5 versions behind Silverlight- hardly any silversh1te sites work correctly with it.
All you lazy developers who can’t be bothered to learn w3c standards technologies make me sick,
Browser plugins (Flash, Silverlight, etc) are not Web Technologies – they are not ratified by the w3c.

By: Matthew Hill

Matthew Hill — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:47:01 +0000

Hey, this is the brave new world of Web 2.0 — you’re supposed to ignore things like good accessibility! Everybody knows that!

;-)

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:58:57 +0000

I wonder how blind people use Surface…. Also, how the hell do the visually impaired use an i-phone?

All this touchscreeny stuff is all very well, but surely blind folks will suffer

By: Telmo Carlos

Telmo Carlos — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:32:05 +0000

Wonder if we ever are going to have the keyboard and mouse “surfaced” to the table when we get to our desk…

By: Matthew Hill

Matthew Hill — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:56:21 +0000

“Vista like applications”. I’m turned off already.

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:31:07 +0000

The more the merrier I say… Anything that can make the web more engaging, more beautiful and more usable gets my vote….. Having said that, I’m always mildly suspicious of Microsoft Products…..

Maybe they are gearing up to use it alongside their new Surface stuff?

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/index.html

By: Jenni

Jenni — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:29:54 +0000

Noticed that the Guardian tech blog is reporting: ‘WebGui 6.0.1 was launched last week. What’s new (as of last month) is the move to combine WebGui with Silverlight 2. “We are going for a fully enabled enterprise platform for creating on-line Vista like applications” http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/04/11/the_webgui_way_to_develop_silverlight_2_applications_one_day.html

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:30:00 +0000

… and an accessibility link in return:
http://access.adobe.com/

(You might want to check with the RNIB too….)

jd/adobe