Why is Silverlight becoming so widely spread?
I don't mean to rail on Silverlight at all, to the contrary it seems to be quite a sleek system, however I'm curious as to why Silverlight has seen the adoption it has (case in point: Netflix streaming player) at the same time that there seems to be such widespread, say, "outrage" over and droppage of Flash, Java Applets and other such closed source, 3-rd party plugins, and the strong movement towards HTML5 technologies run by the browser, not by some external plugin. Can anyone explain why Silverlight seems to be resisting the so-called "HTML5 revolution"? Thanks for any insights.
Why is Silverlight becoming so widely spread?
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I don't mean to rail on Silverlight at all, to the contrary it seems to be quite a sleek system, however I'm curious as to why Silverlight has seen the adoption it has (case in point: Netflix streaming player) at the same time that there seems to be such widespread, say, "outrage" over and droppage of Flash, Java Applets and other such closed source, 3-rd party plugins, and the strong movement towards HTML5 technologies run by the browser, not by some external plugin. Can anyone explain why Silverlight seems to be resisting the so-called "HTML5 revolution"? Thanks for any insights.