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11-19-2009 , 05:22 AM
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http://nokiaexperts.com/nokia-n900-t...ng-music-apps/ is there anything being worked on by the community. and if there is a related please combine this post with it.
 
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11-19-2009 , 06:30 AM
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What has the link to do with the subject line?
Currently Silverlight does not work on the N900.

However there is a Novell Moonlight plugin available for the Linux Desktop Firefox and I wonder if that might work in the Maemo MicroB browser too, if somebody wants to test... :-P
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11-19-2009 , 06:31 AM
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The open source community is generally not all that enthusiastic about extending Microsoft's reach.
 

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11-19-2009 , 09:58 AM
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But if that "reach" includes allowing you to stream Netflix on your mobile device (which is what Silverlight does for Macs)...then wouldn't you want it too?

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The open source community is generally not all that enthusiastic about extending Microsoft's reach.
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But if that "reach" includes allowing you to stream Netflix on your mobile device (which is what Silverlight does for Macs)...then wouldn't you want it too?
Being perfectly honest no I wouldn't, I'd rather wait for Netflix to switch to something less restrictive. Of course many people will just want Netflix to work without any knowledge or concern for why but then the "reach" of the platform should have been one of Netflix's concerns.
 
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11-19-2009 , 10:13 AM
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Meh, silverlight will die soon anyway. It doesn't offer anything special, and most sites will just prefer to use flash or something else to reach more people
Personally, i haven't seen a site impose silverlight just yet
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Silverlight is crap, it is part of Microsofts strategy to give an inferior user experience in Linux. Moonlight always lags a version behind Silverlight and does not support DRM, so I doubt it will ever work with Netflix.

Back in the days before Netflix used Silverlight I was able to watch movies using Virtualbox.. now with Silverlight the movies don't play well, for some reason it is much more resource hungry than their previous solution.
 

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What has the link to do with the subject line?
In the linked article, the person mentions Silverlight in the Zune.net bit.
 
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Meh, silverlight will die soon anyway. It doesn't offer anything special, and most sites will just prefer to use flash or something else to reach more people
Personally, i haven't seen a site impose silverlight just yet
As someone working with project that involves tightly integrated web server and normal desktop application, Silverlight does offer something special. Some parts of the application can be moved to web server and it still acts like rest of the application and we could use same code everywhere. We are not using it yet but I think we will in near future.

Not that this is very common use case or I'm defending MS but Silverlight and WPF has IMO some benefits.

I would be very happy if Silverlight was offered to all platforms and then we could also use handhelds in our scenario. That would be so . I remember that there was announcement that MS is going to push Silverlight to Maemo and Symbian. What happened to that? Or was it only to Symbian?
 

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I remember that there was announcement that MS is going to push Silverlight to Maemo and Symbian. What happened to that? Or was it only to Symbian?
Silverlight was announced for both. (Previous discussion in the fora.) It may well still be coming.
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