Posted by brandonthedeveloper at September 8th, 2007

Posted by brandonthedeveloper at September 6th, 2007

For the last few days I’ve attempted to install Silverlight 1.0 on a couple of OSs (2 x OS X, 1 x Windows XP).

Let me just get this out of the way, installing SL on the mac doesn’t work. It installs just fine, then you go back to the site you were trying to see and it asks AGAIN to install. Well.. so much for that. Windows on the other hand, was not much better. First SL tries to throw up some badge like Adobe Express Install but its not. You download, you install. No express anything. Next, same thing, I go back to the site I first attempted and nothing. No Express Install Wannabe badge, just black. This time I reinstall and then reboot Windows. That gets it to work so I start looking at SL RIAs (not that a clock is an RIA. Heck, Most of the stuff in the SL showcase is a GD video player. Way to use those imaginations!). Guess what? So not once did I think, “Wow. I can really see why folks might like SL. Here’s something you can’t do in Flash.”.

All in all, a waste of time. I really tried to keep an open mind with Sl these last few months but if you look at where Flash/Flex/AIR is at this point and where Silverlight is, why would you even bother?

[UPDATE]
I was going to post a link to the Microsoft Liquid Motion page but they’ve taken it down (after 10 years).

[UPDATE 2]
Thank you Google – Google cache Liquid Motion page

I’m betting Expression/Blend/Silverlight is going to be another Liquid Motion failure.

So yes I prolly sound like a real smart ass now but I owe that entirely to my total waste of time sponsored by Microsoft Silverlight – gg.