Greg, Windows 8 IE browser (the full screen metro one) does not support plugins. So no Silverlight, no Flash etc.
It's more commonly known as a Silverlight Coup de grâce. Enjoy. On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, I'm getting a weird conflict running Silverlight 5 apps on Windows > 8. In the Metro shell's browser it knows I don't have SL5 installed on the > first visit and asks me to install a file (with x64 in the name). It then > flips over to the old shell and installs the file okay. Now SL5 is working > in IE10 in the old shell, but the Metro browser keeps asking me to install > Silverlight over and over, and if you do it says "another version is > already installed". > > So there is a catch-22 dead-end. Some web searches hint that SL5 is not > supported in the Windows 8 Metro browser. I could not believe this would be > true. Is it, or am I missing some trick? > > Greg >
