Comments on: Windows SkyDrive Drops Silverlight For HTML 5 http://www.slashgear.com/windows-skydrive-drops-silverlight-for-html-5-20160416/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 17 May 2012 00:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: JohnnyG http://www.slashgear.com/windows-skydrive-drops-silverlight-for-html-5-20160416/#comment-119021 JohnnyG Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=160416#comment-119021 As a WPF/Silverlight developer, I’ve been watching the Silverlight/HTML5 thing very closely.  Truthfully, it kind of makes sense here, though.  Accessing SkyDrive is something you do over the web.  Tablets – like iPad and all of the Android flavors probably aren’t going to allow Silverlight any time soon.  So if you want the service to be accessible from the devices that are fast becoming THE portable standard, you kind of have to go with a technology that they will run. 

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/windows-skydrive-drops-silverlight-for-html-5-20160416/#comment-118931 Anonymous Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:14:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=160416#comment-118931 Yes, having a MS phone that was incompatible with the MS plugin required to view my MS docs was kind of ridiculous.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/windows-skydrive-drops-silverlight-for-html-5-20160416/#comment-118928 Anonymous Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:48:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=160416#comment-118928 ….Wow.

That’s something I didn’t expect.

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