- #MAKE SILVERLIGHT PLUGIN FOR MAC VERIZON INSTALL#
- #MAKE SILVERLIGHT PLUGIN FOR MAC VERIZON FREE#
- #MAKE SILVERLIGHT PLUGIN FOR MAC VERIZON WINDOWS#
Instead Opera, Mozilla, Apple and Google are on a dysfunctional goosechase with VIDEO. Not ubiquity yet, but we're getting there.īrowser vendors could indeed improve plugin communication for things like prefs-setting, cookie-blocking and so on. It is a real capability in the world today.įor every authoritarian iPhone sold, there are forty-odd Flash-enabled phones sold.
#MAKE SILVERLIGHT PLUGIN FOR MAC VERIZON INSTALL#
People do choose to install Adobe Flash into their varied browsers, and they do so successfully and rapidly. "ratsbane" agrees with "pj", and the world can do nought but comply. If you don't absolutely have to have the functionality a plugin gives you, why short-change yourself like that? If your web app requires some plugin you WILL lose at least a small part of your target audience - Silverlight more than Flash. Flash was probably the best option when YouTube came out but when HTML 5 starts to take over the video and audio tags may make it superfluous. Future browser technologies will make plugins even less necessary: e.g. Unnecessary most of the time: E.g., a lot of common Flash animation can be done equally well with native browser techniques like Javascript, CSS. Firebug can't see inside Flash or Silverlight objects on a page) Requires more than one set of development tools (e.g. They may not be harder to secure than native browser stuff but you have to worry about two things. Plugins may provide an additional vector for malware. Maintaining session currency requires sharing information between browser and the plugin - extra work to develop and many Flash/Silverlight/etc.
Plugins bypass the authentication mechanisms built into browsers. Less likely to work in all environments (mobile phone, etc.) Users must install and maintain an additional piece. Plugins like Flash, Silverlight, and Active-X complicate the process and lower the quality of the web experience. I would love to see the networks lobbying against the cable companies in Congress. Lastly, I am starting to suspect that the networks who create content would be perfectly happy to see cable companies reduced to common carrier status and deliver all their shows and broadcasts through Hulu or their own branded web sites. But ISPs blocking content their customers want is only a feasible business strategy with a government backed monopoly and as consumers we should be upset about it.
#MAKE SILVERLIGHT PLUGIN FOR MAC VERIZON FREE#
If I can access the content I want free or for a reasonable price on the device of my choosing (Mac in my case), I am very happy regardless of the underlying technology. In any case, blocking content is exactly the kind of thing we should be mad about. I wonder if they will block it if FiOS comes to my area (but I've been told that Comcast and the city of Pittsburgh have a sweetheart deal to block it). I'm curious, is your ISP a cable company? I have DSL through Verizon, and maybe they like the idea I can watch ESPN without paying Comcast for it. Fortunately for me, I hardly need Flash and never need Silverlight. If there is something I absolutely must see, I open IE to view it. I browse with all audio/video media disabled by default - and I dislike RMS. I couldn't believe I was seriously having problems with Microsoft installing Silverlight correctly in its own browser.
#MAKE SILVERLIGHT PLUGIN FOR MAC VERIZON WINDOWS#
Both machines were running Windows XP and installing inside IE.
And on both machines I tried it on, Silverlight failed to install with some cryptic, unhelpful error message. > aside from the initial annoyance of waiting for Silverlight to install itself (which I did because it was the only way to watch the Olympics broadcasts). Your current computer network falls outside of theseĬategories. is alsoĪvailable to fans that access the internet from U.S.Ĭollege campuses and U.S. Their high-speed internet connection from an Īffiliated internet service provider. My super-huge-ISP only gets me this message:Į is available at no charge to fans who receive You appear to be one of the chosen who have access. I recently discovered I can watch many of the games broadcast by ESPN on ESPN360.
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