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Microsoft Killing Silverlight?
SharkLaser writes "Silverlight 5 might be last version released by Microsoft. Several industry insiders and partners for the last few weeks have heard from their own Microsoft sources that there won't be new versions released after Silverlight 5. Status on service packs and support for Silverlight is unclear, as Microsoft haven't yet released lifecycle support end date even for the previous Silverlight 4. By their support page they will give full year head-up before ending support. With Adobe ending development of Flash for mobile browsers and Microsoft ending development of Silverlight, HTML5 video looks a lot more promising. But will content providers be able to give out their material without DRM and how does HTML5 perform with non-video side of Flash and Silverlight?"
is Sliverlight?
How's that FLOSSie koolaid? Is it cherry? if you had bothered to use anything besides "XP Corporate Razr1911 Edition" you'd know that both Chrome and IE have low rights mode by default so that the browser actually has LOWER permissions than even the user does. Does Linux? Nope, same privileges. Nice try but its a swing and a miss. Hell Linux sever has more open vulnerabilities right now according to Securina, be happy to post the links if you like.
As for TFA all those cheering HTML V5 is gonna get bit right in the ass and i'm gonna laugh, oh how I'm gonna laugh. in my own tests even SD video on HTML V5 sucks up a hell of a lot more CPU and memory than flash, from the looks of it Apple will ram through H.264 as the format for HTML V5 as everyone wants to get into the fat money the iShiny is making, so there goes any freedom you thought you'd get, and if you think the movie companies are gonna give up their DRM I have a nice bridge you'd be interested in so I wouldn't be surprised if you end up with a version of HTML V5 that won't even play on Linux thanks to lack of kernel level DRM like Windows and Apple has.
So give it five years, hell give it three, I bet all those that are cheering HTML V5 thinking it'll "free the web!" is gonna be looking back and thinking they never had it so good. The default answer on every forum will be "Go buy a copy of Windows, install into VM, then watch video" thus ensuring even less people will deal with the hoops jumping than before. hell MSFT couldn't have asked for a better prezzie!
Oh and before anyone says "Google will save us!" I predict Google will just take their nice GPL V2 kernel and lock the fuck out of it, thus letting them sign the NDA and getting their own DRM kernel module so they can play HTML V5 protected content. this helps Google as it gives them one more selling point to OEMs, and when even grandma knows about the little green robot frankly they don't need the hackers anymore. Final score for HTML V5? Bloated DRM that lets the big three, Apple, Google, and MSFT split the market and fucks the smaller OSes like Linux right out the market. Hell at least with Adobe they did give you flash, even if it was usually behind. Is there even a legal H.264 codec for Linux yet?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.