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/


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