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Re:Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software by theshrike79 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:29AM (#33189294)
Silverlight was around for 12 years (9/2007 - 1/2019). Not exactly a shooting star.

It was technically better than Flash in every way, but the Internet was in its "Micro$oft bad!" -mode at the time and shunned everything they made. They also took a bit too long to provide proper clients for OS X and Linux.

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Re:Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software by Joel_Mckay on Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:52AM (#33189418)
If I recall it was mostly the DRM and codec-licensing that strangled most projects.

Silverlight itself was actually relatively good at the time, but HTML5 media tag standardization made it along with Real-player, QuickTime, and Flash effectively obsolete for their primary use-cases.

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