Moonlight – Needed for Digital Media Awards Web-site

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Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for
Unix systems. With Moonlight you can access videos,
applications and content created for Silverlight on Linux.

With Moonlight you can:

  • Watch the Olympics on Linux with our 3.0 preview

  • View Silverlight content on Linux

  • Watch videos delivered with Smoothstreaming

  • Run Silverlight applications on Linux

via go-mono.com

Whilst Flash is a pain in the ass, at least it is ubiquitous. Sites that require Silverlight are really unforgivable.

Off I go to install an unstable plugin in my Ubuntu-based browser so I can access information that should be in HTM-goddammed-L

3 thoughts on “Moonlight – Needed for Digital Media Awards Web-site”

  1. Holy shit, do you really need Silverlight to watch the Olympics coverage? How many pieces of gold did MSFT give the IOC for that?

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  2. And of course Moonlight doesn’t work in Chrome. I feel like we are back in the Internet Explorer 4.0 embrace and extend world all over again.

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  3. It’s even worse than I thought. The Digital Media Awards Silverlight Install is required to…..wait for it…….. show you an ad! Did they sit down and ask themselves, what is the best way to minimise clicks on an ad? Let’s ask people to install Silverlight before they can see it.I hope Microsoft are paying these publishers shed-loads of money to make up for the collapse in ad traffic.

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