Your assertion with regard to SilverLight’s alledged advantage over Flash in HD is unfounded. Now…in regard to your assertion to the difference in HD and the Plug-ins. When NetFlix Movie Server initiates the SilverLight Plug-in and starts the video stream the movie starts semi-pixelated because the resolution of typically 1500 is still catching up to the Buffer. Windows Media Player plug-in streamed extremely nicely and the resolution was Flawless…with SilverLight, if you have a scene with a very dark or black background, such as…a night sky in a movie, you can actually see the pixels that make up the images in the SilverLight Plug-in Player. I went through the transition phase from Windows Media Player Plug-in platform to SilverLight. SilverLight does not beat Flash in resolution. There is no current workaround to this issue. The Silverlight TextBox cannot receive focus (and therefore you cannot select/change text in the TextBox). The only work-around is to not use windowless mode.ģ. This is being investigated by the Silverlight team and has also been reported to the Opera development team. This will show a blank page with the Opera status area saying “Click to activate and use this control”. Silverlight does not work in Opera when using windowless mode ( Joe Stegman however, listed a few of them which you might want to consider before installing it:Ģ.

Just download and install, it will work (there are issues though). As I still see some threads popping out on how to install Silverlight on Opera web browser, though will make it clear:ĭespite the fact that it gives you an “unsupported browser” error message when trying to download it, ignore that.

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