Hi Pedro, In addition to what Daniel said, Silverlight is Microsofts attempt to replicate Adobe Flash. It copies most of the functionality of Flash and works in a similar fashion. As usual it is Microsofts attempt to enter an existing market by plagiarising the market leader.
Microsoft itself has indicated that they are moving to HTML 5, so the years of Silverlight may be numbered. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-03-26, at 16:06, Daniel Kerr wrote: > > Hi Pedro > > <http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/> > > Basically it's another form of video content/player. Much like QuickTime, > Real Player, VLC, Flip4Mac/Windows Media Player, Perian, Flash, etc etc etc. > I could keep going but that sort gives the point,..lol. > > The reason you need it is that the Channel 9 site probably uses their > content to display the video. > > One of the fun things with video and web content. So many different versions > around, and players to match. > > The main ones I always recommend to clients are the above listed ones I > mentioned. > To me these ones give the "Swiss Army Knife approach". If you have all those > players, you've got your bases covered for whatever content you come across. > (hopefully) > > On new setups I do for clients I recommend (and install if the want) the > above as it makes their life easier then trying to hunt around and find all > the players ;) > > Hope that helps. > > Kind Regards > Daniel > > On 26/3/11 3:58 PM, "Pedro" <pfow...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > >> Afternoon all >> >> Can anyone tell what is Microsoft silverlight and why am I required to >> install >> it just to watch >> one of my favourite shows from Ch 9 >> >> cheers >> >> Pedro >> >> >> 15" MacBookPro 2.66 GHz Core i7 >> 4 GB/1067 MHz 500GB >> OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> > > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Macintosh** > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
