OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight

Re:OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplem... by ShhhDontTell on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:17AM (#23333342)

It gave the front end developer access to the native win32 API througb COM. That means you could effectively write a native app and deliver it over the web. Powerful but also malware-prone.

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Re:OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplem... by Ididntdothis on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:27AM (#23333393)

Really ? Maybe this was an option but I thought Silverlight was generally sandboxed. ActiveX could do native though

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Re:OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplem... by rogihee on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:19AM (#23334042)

Yup, really! I had a USB-to-Serial FTDI 232R with an actual device running in Silverlight back in 2012-ish. Just made a demo, but it worked.

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Re:OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplem... by Ididntdothis on Thursday May 28, 2020 @09:47AM (#23337164)

Was that Silverlight on the desktop or in the browser? For a while Silverlight was the recommended desktop UI toolkit until it wasn’t a little later.

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