Thread: Search.overdrive.com needs a plugin
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Old 08-19-2011, 09:02 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
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.
They're just using it for their fancy horizontal scroller, not for any search stuff. That type of widget has been implemented many times by many people in HTML/CSS/Javascript (for example, Netflix's web page -- everything except the actual video playback is pure HTML/CSS/Javascript, and they have a similar looping-horizontal-scroller design).
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