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New Microsoft Silverlight Features Have Windows Bias

Posted by Soulskill on from the open-is-as-open-does dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this quote from a story at El Reg about an early look at the Silverlight 4 beta: "There are ... major changes to Silverlight's out-of-browser functionality, a loose equivalent to Adobe Systems' AIR runtime for Flash. Even when fully sandboxed, which means having the same permissions that would apply to a browser-hosted Silverlight applet, out-of-browser applications get an HTML control, custom window settings, and the ability to fire pop-up notifications. ... Unfortunately, some of these features are not what they first appear. The HTML control in Silverlight 4 is not a new embedded browser from Microsoft, but uses components from Internet Explorer on Windows, or Safari on the Mac, which means that the same content might render differently. The HTML control only works out-of-browser, and simply displays a blank space if browser-hosted. Clipboard support is text-only in the Silverlight 4 beta, though this could change for the full release. More seriously, COM automation is a Windows-only feature, introducing differentiation between the Mac and Windows implementations."

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  1. wow!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Story submitter and first post

  2. Re:History by MightyMartian · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Worse, how is it off topic? How do people with the intellectual capacity of a box of rotten eggs get mod points, or even manage to breathe unassisted?

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