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I was trying to point out that with every new piece of technology comes dangers, and the dangers with such powerful APIs being exposed over the web, to me, out-way the benefits as a website using silver-light can bypass my web-browsers security features and install viruses to my computer without my consent, or download explicit images without my consent, and I would not even know, being how transparent you can make software with things like WinForms.
I do agree that it is a good piece of technology, I'm just saying that until it's been THOROUGHLY tested, and all holes created by exposing the deepest APIs of Windows to people on the web have been filled, I would not want to touch it because the risk associated with it is too high, even as a home user.
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I agree it needs to be tested THOROUGHLY as well. I tend to be an early adopter. I respect your position. It is a very valid one. I more was resonding to the view that Silverlight is for videos only.
Richard
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Ok, understood. Though I still don't want another media-player for my computer (I see silverlight's primary purpose of that of a media system), what I want is a media player that combines all the formats of the current ones into 1 product, and for a relatively low cost, (I'm making a media player at the moment).
The worst thing about the darkness is the light at the end - DX-MON
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I dont have  it installed
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I know I have it installed on most machines I run, but I'm not sure on which 
At least one runs the silverlight 2.0 SDK that's for sure as visual studio runs kind of bad on that machine.
WM.
What about weapons of mass-construction?
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...because it shows up in Firefox's plugins list. Version 1.0.something.
Presumably a newer version would take care of the annoying pleas of MSDN, but i just can't be bothered. I'm guessing that by the time i actually need it for anything there'll be two or three new versions out anyway, so i might as well just wait.
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Shog9 wrote: because it shows up in Firefox's plugins list
That's weird. I've defiantly got it installed because Silverlight pages work, but it doesn't show up in the plug ins list. (FF3)
Simon
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I have FF3 and it is shown in my plug-ins fine.
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Yeah, but you could add "Silverlight (all versions)" to your resumé 
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I have it installed by it does not show on FF3. I hate the nagging MS SilverLight install message box 
Yusuf
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How about "I already uninstalled Silverlight" or "How do I completely uninstall Silverlight?!"
--Taf
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Another other side...
I tried installing SilverLight and the install failed. It doesn't appear as uninstallable, but now SilverLight sites think I have it so I don't get the option to install it.
Brian
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Taf Greenstreet wrote: How do I completely uninstall Silverlight?
yea, I'd like to know that too...
Yusuf
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Does Silverlight exist under linux?
John
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It's called Moonlight for Linux and is a joint Novell and MS product. I think the fellow running the show also works on Mono. I'm a Suse user at home.
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because I think I installed it, but I still get prompted to install it at the next visit.
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You obviously didn't drink enough of the Kool-Aid™ the first time.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Me too, using FireFox3 - going crazy. But I'm not going to resort to IE7.
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Try to use version 2.0. Work nice with FF3 since beta 2 came out
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Me too!!
It is good to know that it works fine 
Also on Microsoft download page it does not work for me (IE7 + Vista Ultimate, IE7 Windows Server 2003, or Firefox2)
*lol*
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: I think I installed it, but I still get prompted to install it at the next visit.
Bleh. Flash had that feature for years! Someone sue Microsoft.
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It could be since Silverlight is still in the beta stage if you have a version that comes AFTER the one the site was written for, it will prompt you to get it again. When you go to the site to "upgrade", it will tell you that the site has been written for a lower version.
Not my favorite aspect of Silverlight.
Richard
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Me too..
FF3 thinks I don't have it, I thought I did install it. 
Yusuf
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