Installation was quick, and at the end invited me to restart the browser – though it seemed to do so automatically. It duly invited me to install Silverlight:Ĭlicking the button took me to Microsoft’s download page, where I clicked the big button:ĭownloaded, opened the download, and Silverlight installed: I downloaded the beta and ran the installer. My Mac is running Leopard (OS 10.5) and Safari is the default browser. “I’m canceling my subscription because you built an app that requires silverlight.” Please. What a community of loud close-minded drama queens. Sometimes I find it hard to admit I’m a mac user. Not only is it proprietary, but it runs more slowly than any alternative (Java, Flash) and it does not support end-user choice of browsers (Firefox, Safari not supported).īy way of balance, there are some dissenting voices: I was really looking forward to this, but I cannot support Microsoft’s Silverlight platform. Silverlight will not install on Firefox on an Intel Mac (all versions current.) Why, O, why did you choose to go with a proprietary Microsoft technology with all the predictable Microsoft flaws and prejudices? There is absolutely no reason to require a Microsoft plugin to display text and graphics on a Mac. Macs have a long, successful history of superior page layout, design, and rendering of published content. Silverlight? Why? I’m using Mac to escape Microsft’s crappy technology. If reading the NYT requires MS products then, for this reader, goodbye NYT. Not going to use *anything* from Microsoft. There are 122 at the time of writing, of which around half are complaints about the choice of Silverlight. The New York Times has run into a hail of criticism from Mac users over its use of Microsoft’s Silverlight plug-in for its offline reader, Times Reader, in its new Mac version, now in beta.
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