On Dec 14, 2007 8:41 PM, Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why was Silverlight included? > As far as I am aware it's a plug-in much like Flash, > so why would it be hindering the open web?
Of course I don't know why Opera has included Silverlight, but to speculate... It might be because of something like this, http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/10/open_letter_to_chris_wilson.html Silverlight has a subset of .Net's CLR called CoreCLR, and one could argue that Microsoft are intentionally trying to stiffle the open web[tm] while advancing Silverlight. -- .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org/ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
