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Re:Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins by Tichy on Thursday September 15, 2011 @04:21AM (#2999302)
Hm, plugins have other uses than just displaying legacy data formats. I want to be able to enhance the web sites I regularly visit. OK, and filter ads while I am at it.
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Re:Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins by mcbarry on Thursday September 15, 2011 @04:55AM (#2999385)
This is referring to runtime environments like Flash and Silverlight, not browser extensions like Adblock.
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Re:Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins by Tichy on Thursday September 15, 2011 @05:15AM (#2999431)
The original MS blog article that somebody linked seems to say "no plugins", though. No Flash and no Silverlight is just a corollary of that. If they allow extensions, how would they prevent Flash?
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Re:Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins by frou_dh on Thursday September 15, 2011 @07:24AM (#2999776)
Presumably the extension API would be quite limited.
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