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Re:OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplem... by austincheney on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:13AM (#23333316)
While Silverlight did a lot as a media platform the primary selling point from Microsoft was video. It played video very well in the browser. Silverlight is what powered Netflix a few years back, for example.
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Re:OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplem... by plerpin on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:46AM (#23333843)
It played DRM'd video very well. Silverlight had a robust DRM stack.
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