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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by jawngee on Monday January 12, 2009 @11:12AM (#430596)
Why should I go through the hassle to evaluate something I won't potentially use? Even the intro video is in silverlight. Perhaps if it were in flash I could make some determination if it's worth the hassle.

And what's the point of the hassle in the first place? Someone has yet to explain why SilverLight is better for me as the consumer than Flex/Flash.

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by jmatt on Monday January 12, 2009 @11:42AM (#430658)
Since when has HN stuck with the defacto technology...

Ok, this may age me some. But people said exactly the same thing when Java and Flash first came out... if you go back far enough they were also intrusive annoying frustrating bug ridden technologies.

I'm not directly supporting SilverLight. I'm just supporting as many competitive web platforms as possible. They all add something, even the evil Microsoft ones. That being said Microsoft is losing the battle with that horrible SilverLight install. It needs to be as easy to install as Flash. It should be as close to transparent as possible.

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by axod on Monday January 12, 2009 @11:47AM (#430673)
>> (Java+Flash) "if you go back far enough they were also intrusive annoying frustrating bug ridden technologies."

To a fair number of people, they still are.

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by jmatt on Monday January 12, 2009 @12:59PM (#430806)
True enough!
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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by pclark on Monday January 12, 2009 @11:13AM (#430599)
I think having a flash tutorial (as well as a silverlight one) is a great idea.
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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by axod on Monday January 12, 2009 @11:27AM (#430628)
or, just a flash one, since it's what is commonly used for videos.
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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by stormideas on Monday January 12, 2009 @11:20AM (#430611)
That's sounding good to me. Going to add detect for Silverlight and switch in a flash version of the intro video if Silverlight isn't present.

Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by smysore on Thursday January 15, 2009 @02:57AM (#434972)
I installed it so I could watch Netflix content instantly
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