[jmatt]

Since when has HN stuck with the defacto technology...

Ok, this may age me some. But people said exactly the same thing when Java and Flash first came out... if you go back far enough they were also intrusive annoying frustrating bug ridden technologies.

I'm not directly supporting SilverLight. I'm just supporting as many competitive web platforms as possible. They all add something, even the evil Microsoft ones. That being said Microsoft is losing the battle with that horrible SilverLight install. It needs to be as easy to install as Flash. It should be as close to transparent as possible.

[axod]

>> (Java+Flash) "if you go back far enough they were also intrusive annoying frustrating bug ridden technologies."

To a fair number of people, they still are.

[jmatt]

True enough!