Yep just checked on my Surface RT, and flash works both in the modern UI and desktop versions. Silverlight will not install at all on Windows RT
|-----Original Message----- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Cooney |Sent: Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:43 AM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: RE: Silverlight on Windows 8 | |Yep. Supports flash but not Silverlight. | |On 28 Aug 2013 11:40, "Bill McCarthy" <bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au> wrote: | | | I thought it does support flash | | |-----Original Message----- | |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- | |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price | |Sent: Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:31 AM | |To: ozDotNet | |Subject: Re: Silverlight on Windows 8 | | | |Greg, | |Windows 8 IE browser (the full screen metro one) does not support |plugins. | So no | |Silverlight, no Flash etc. | | | |It's more commonly known as a Silverlight Coup de grâce. | | | |Enjoy. | | | | | |On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: | | | | | | Folks, I'm getting a weird conflict running Silverlight 5 apps on | Windows | |8. In the Metro shell's browser it knows I don't have SL5 installed on the | first visit | |and asks me to install a file (with x64 in the name). It then flips over to | the old | |shell and installs the file okay. Now SL5 is working in IE10 in the old | shell, but the | |Metro browser keeps asking me to install Silverlight over and over, and |if | you do | |it says "another version is already installed". | | | | So there is a catch-22 dead-end. Some web searches hint that SL5 is | not | |supported in the Windows 8 Metro browser. I could not believe this |would be | |true. Is it, or am I missing some trick? | | | | | | Greg | | | | |
