Internet Explorer and HTML5
“Microsoft wants people to use its Silverlight plug-in, so Internet Explorer isn’t supporting native video playback in the browser at all.”
To me an absolute horrific comment, Internet Explorer is holding back the development on the World Wide Web again.
Lets just remind ourselves that Silverlight Can ONLY be developed under windows, and is not supported on Linux or the web browser Opera…..
What a Shambles.
Lets just show Silverlight is not supported, compared to Adobe Flash….
OS Support Statistics: shows the percentage of computers that do NOT support RIA’s (not detected, reasons for non-detection is because JavaScript is disabled).
| OS/RIA | Flash | Silverlight |
| ALL | 2.36% | 57.07% |
| Mac OSX | 11.56% | 74.64% |
| Windows XP | 1.46% | 61.86% |
| Linux | 3.78% | 95.21% |
| iPhone | 98.67% | 99.52% |
Lower % is better - Stats from riastats.com
Oh Dear, Microsoft does it again! Will they ever learn what to other browsers is completely obvious. Standards Rule!!
Well I stopped testing my website with IE a long time ago.
It should be left to die. MS just doesnt seem to care about it any more.
I have a talk with Microsoft in a few weeks, will be interesting to see what they have to say on the matter.