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Old 08-19-2011, 08:12 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by toddos View Post
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.
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.
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