[thelist] MS Silverlight

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Thu May 31 20:09:21 CDT 2007


On 30 May 2007, at 00:14, John Dowdell wrote:

> Adobe Flash Player 8 for Linux was the exception, because the v9  
> Player
> would arrive about half-a-year later... it would have been bad to
> present Player 8 for Linux and Player 9 for Mac/Win within the same
> week, so Linux went straight to the high-performance scripting engine,
> and skipped the short-term v8 generation.

...which is fine and logical. But it didn't half annoy a bunch of  
people, who largely thought that Player8 for Linux would have been  
just dandy, even if it was in the same week as the v9 for Mac/Win

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2005/12/why_isnt_there.cfm

Cheers
Martin

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