![]() ![]() My Mac is running Leopard (OS 10.5) and Safari is the default browser. “I’m canceling my subscription because you built an app that requires silverlight.” Please. What a community of loud close-minded drama queens. Sometimes I find it hard to admit I’m a mac user. Not only is it proprietary, but it runs more slowly than any alternative (Java, Flash) and it does not support end-user choice of browsers (Firefox, Safari not supported).īy way of balance, there are some dissenting voices: I was really looking forward to this, but I cannot support Microsoft’s Silverlight platform. Silverlight will not install on Firefox on an Intel Mac (all versions current.) Why, O, why did you choose to go with a proprietary Microsoft technology with all the predictable Microsoft flaws and prejudices? There is absolutely no reason to require a Microsoft plugin to display text and graphics on a Mac. Macs have a long, successful history of superior page layout, design, and rendering of published content. Silverlight? Why? I’m using Mac to escape Microsft’s crappy technology. ![]() If reading the NYT requires MS products then, for this reader, goodbye NYT. ![]() Not going to use *anything* from Microsoft. There are 122 at the time of writing, of which around half are complaints about the choice of Silverlight. The New York Times has run into a hail of criticism from Mac users over its use of Microsoft’s Silverlight plug-in for its offline reader, Times Reader, in its new Mac version, now in beta. ![]()
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