I thought it does support flash
|-----Original Message-----
|From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet-
|[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Price
|Sent: Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:31 AM
|To: ozDotNet
|Subject: Re: Silverlight on Windows 8
|
|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
|
