IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Microsoft

Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by micheljansen on Thursday October 11, 2012 @04:46AM (#4640036)

Big question is: will Silverlight run on websites not whitelisted by Microsoft? Otherwise it's a dirty trick.

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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by isani on Thursday October 11, 2012 @06:29AM (#4640230)

No, Silverlight doesn't run on IE10 Metro. I just tested that it doesn't run on an arbitrary site, and I don't think it's possible to even whitelist it.

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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by manojlds on Thursday October 11, 2012 @04:49AM (#4640043)

Silverlight is more dead than Flash and MS killed itby alienating Silverlight developers.

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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by zapdrive on Thursday October 11, 2012 @06:18AM (#4640204)

The only thing keeping silverlight alive is Netflix. I wonder why they use it in first place.

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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by ttrashh on Thursday October 11, 2012 @06:33AM (#4640242)

DRM, better streaming, C# and the .Net framework

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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by 46Bit on Thursday October 11, 2012 @06:42AM (#4640262)

I have to admit though: Netflix's (Silverlight) player is remarkably stable compared to anything I've ever tried in Flash.

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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by adrr on Thursday October 11, 2012 @10:54AM (#4641012)

Silverlight can enforce protected streams to the output devices. I couldn't play netflix streaming movies on my old monitor since it didn't support HDCP.

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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by aidos on Thursday October 11, 2012 @06:21AM (#4640208)

They use it for the DRM. In their case it's a necessary evil.

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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by rythie on Thursday October 11, 2012 @06:51AM (#4640283)

Some sort of deal with Microsoft I would assume.

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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by fakeer on Thursday October 11, 2012 @07:33AM (#4640351)

.NET.

Almost everybody uses some version of Windows or other and so .NET is there more or less.

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Re:IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Mic... by cooldeal on Thursday October 11, 2012 @09:29AM (#4640655)

No, they had to kill it because the iPad wouldn't run browser plugins. They then transitioned to a plugin free HTML5 mobile web to help all developers.

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