[DC LoCo] thoughtful tech commentary at the washington post [silverlight]

[Michael Haney]

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:
> On 11/08/2010 05:04 PM, Michael Haney wrote:
>> Isn't Silverlight Microsoft's competitor to Adobe Flash?
>
> You can use it in place of either Flash or Java, as both the pretty
> media experience (Flash) and the capability to build rich applications
> (Java) are available.
>

Still won't work on an iPhone or iPad though.  Beats me how people use
them, their web experience is crippled as 50-60% of the Internet uses
Flash.  Even my Blackberry doesn't have it and it really shows on
sites that need it.  Very frustrating.

My next phone is going to be an Android phone.

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