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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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