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by d2zo 5494 days ago
I would've thought that the widget/tile implementation technology would be Silverlight, not HTML5/Javascript. Didn't we also see a playing down of Silverlight at MIX11? Has Silverlight fallen out of favor?
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Silverlight is dead, Jim
Netflix still uses Silverlight, correct?
Netflix uses Silverlight because it supports DRM.
It is the only way to get an app on their phone that doesn't use their game development APIs. So it might be dead on the web, but it isn't dead yet.