Moving to HTML5 Premium Media(blogs.windows.com)
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Moving to HTML5 Premium Media
http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/07/02/moving-to-html5-premium-media/
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Microsoft announced the end of life of Silverlight 5 in 2012, some devs predicted it in 2011, Netflix announced dropping it in 2013. So there aren't many Silverlight developers caught unaware now... and Microsoft has said Silverlight will be supported for 10 years, back then.
This page is more about what Microsoft hopes Netflix and others will do to support Windows 10 than anything on Silverlight.
This page is more about what Microsoft hopes Netflix and others will do to support Windows 10 than anything on Silverlight.
>> I almost feel sorry for all those Silverlight developers out there who dedicated a lot of time to this
Same. My first job out of Uni was at a Windows shop, developing Silverlight and ASP "Line of Business" apps. Many of the devs there were fully bought-in to the MS ecosystem, and wouldn't hear of any doubts or worries over the future of their stack.
Glad I got out of that gig when I did.
Same. My first job out of Uni was at a Windows shop, developing Silverlight and ASP "Line of Business" apps. Many of the devs there were fully bought-in to the MS ecosystem, and wouldn't hear of any doubts or worries over the future of their stack.
Glad I got out of that gig when I did.
Great dicision! Silverlight is so buggy and was never a replacement for Flash. Going HTML5 is imo the best decision!
HTML5 plus a Windows-only DRM plugin.
Oddly enough... Where a flash plugin was highly unstable for me, the Mono version of Silverlight was highly stable, at least from my personal experience. So I'm personally saddened not to see Silverlight heading anywhere. HTML5 still feels clunky most of the time for me, it either doesn't work, or unnecessarily wastes system resources for me.
I'm having a hard time getting used to the idea of Microsoft embracing standards over proprietary solutions. This is such a welcome change from past decades. I wonder if these changes have anything to do with Sataya Nadella at the helm vs. Balmer.
I almost feel sorry for all those Silverlight developers out there who dedicated a lot of time to this but it happened to me 11 years ago with other Microsoft tech.