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Originally Posted by toddos
In other words, Silverlight has its uses. Overdrive's usage of it is slightly ridiculous, though. What they're doing could've been done in plain old HTML/CSS/Javascript without any Silverlight or Flash. So really the issue here is that Overdrive is being dumb. Whether they're being dumb with Silverlight or being dumb with Flash is immaterial.
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If Overdrive could have used HTML/CSS/Javascript for what they use Silverlight for, then yes, they are being dumb as they'll require a specialized piece of software that most people won't have and won't know they'll need for Overdrive as even MSIE doesn't know it needs Silverlight.