Silverlight and Windows 8 RT

Sorry, but add-ons/plug-ins aren't supported on Windows RT (desktop or metro IE). There is limited Flash support - so maybe Microsoft could build support into the browser as they did for Flash? That said, I don't know the future of Silverlight (there are rumors of it going away). Perhaps its future depends on the popularity of Html5. ??

 

Kate

It has a 10 year sunset of support ending in 2021, but it is pretty stable in Silverlight 5. The whole world is moving away from plugins like Flash and Silverlight. They were only created as a Band-Aid(tm) anyway to remedy missing functionality in most modern browsers back in "the day" (that was two weeks ago, right?).

Silverlight works just fine on the desktop version of IE10 in Windows 8.

The content providers who are providing streaming services will make a choice to move forward to HTML 5 any day now, so if your favorite SL site can't be rendered on your WinRT device, they'll modify it soon anyway to render on all devices unless they are crazy... :)

Cheers!

HAL_2010

That isn't true, because HTML5/Javascript simply can't do a lot of the things that Silverilght can do,  In fact, just last fall, Google declared Javascript "fundamentally flawed" and said that if the web was going to advance a new language was needed. 

I've done heavy development in both worlds.  Building a complex web-app in HTML/Javascript compared to Silverlight is like trying to build a house using nothing but a screwdriver and some duct-tape.  By the time you are done you wish you weren't even working in software development anymore.

That isn't true, because HTML5/Javascript simply can't do a lot of the things that Silverilght can do,  In fact, just last fall, Google declared Javascript "fundamentally flawed" and said that if the web was going to advance a new language was needed. 

 

I've done heavy development in both worlds.  Building a complex web-app in HTML/Javascript compared to Silverlight is like trying to build a house using nothing but a screwdriver and some duct-tape.  By the time you are done you wish you weren't even working in software development anymore.

 

 

I don't make the tools, but I do my best to use them. Yes, Silverlight is a great plugin and writing C# code behind or MVVM is much friendlier than the web standard way, but writing code in Delphi was even easier and more productive... I really liked working with CA Visual Objects (Clipper on steroids), but so what? It doesn't matter much anymore, right?

I think that WinRT has a different target audience than the Silverlight LOB application. The Windows 8 Desktop handles it just fine.

I think we have settled the question here. The answer is no it doesn't run on WinRT. So freaking what?

Silverlight is dead, ok.

Steven Sinofsky and his WinDiv team had won the battle.

The DevDiv team had lost.

But Steven Sinofsky has left MSFT directly after the release of Windows 8.

The pack is reshuffled, isn't it?

Instead of Silverlight we have HTML5/JS and XAML/C#.

But it doesn't seem that HTML5/JS is the big winner. Who is still using it?

On http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums are much more questions to XAML/C#.

XAML/C# isn't Silverlight 5, but it's nearly like Silverlight 2.

While Silverlight is based on a subset of NET/Win32, XAML/C# is based on Win8.

XAML/C# is a rebuild on a new lightweight plattform, but XAML/C# has only the restricted functionality to build quick and dirty apps and is still far away to build maintainable, evolvable and testable applications via MVVM.

Maybe XAML/C# will be the new Silverlight in one or two years.

So, again:

Yes, Silverlight is dead, but I think that we can have the hope that HTML5/JS will not have success and XAML/C# will became a Silverlight 6.

We will have to be patient for now.

I can't believe Microsoft's Silverlight is not supported on Microsoft's Windows RT. It is a joke that Lovefilm works on an Apple iPad and not on Windows RT. Lovefilm, Blinkbox and Clubcard TV use Silverlight and I can't view any films. So much for a multimedia tablet. I am going to return my RT tablet too! What a joke!