Michael Arrington argues silverlight is the future of the web

Re:Michael Arrington argues silverlight is the future of the... by mattculbreth on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @10:04PM (#18552)

So I know that they're trying to say it's not just "applets 2007", but how is it all that different? There's a 4MB download, it's running a VM (a mini-CLR), and it's probably going to have security limitations.

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Re:Michael Arrington argues silverlight is the future of the... by omouse on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @10:11PM (#18554)

It's only a 4mb download. Java is 100mb+ last time I checked and no one uses it much for applets.

Security limitations? I would expect them to be the same as the Java applet security limitations. Or no limitations at all since this is Microsoft we're talking about :P

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Re:Michael Arrington argues silverlight is the future of the... by Tichy on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @01:47AM (#18617)

It seems to be a 13MB download: http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

100MB is probably the SDK, which you don't need for running applets.

The problem with plugins is not so much the size, though, it is the administrator rights. A lot of people surf the net from their offices in big corporations, where they might not have the rights to install anything on their computers.

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Re:Michael Arrington argues silverlight is the future of the... by paul on Wednesday May 02, 2007 @02:02PM (#18782)

If it actually works, then it's totally different.

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