safari doesn't recognize silverlight

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hentzm Author

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safari doesn't recognize silverlight

I go to silverlightversion.com and I get nothing but zeroes

Chrome and Firefox all list the version installed. I need silverlight on safri to run a company application. Any ideas?

Safari-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 27, 2012 10:22 AM

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Klaus1

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Mar 27, 2012 10:30 AM in response to hentzm

With SilverLight, Microsoft attempted to create their own version of what a replacement for Flash could be - but not to universal acclaim. You can read more about it here:

http://silverlight.net/

So, if you go to any sites that have been designed for this new Silverlight stuff, you can download the plug-in from here (but make certain that you are downloading SilverLight v.1.0 for OS X (10.4.8 upwards) if you are using a PPC Mac, but even this will not work with Safari 4. Version 2 only works with Intel Macs and does work with Safari 4/5. The solution is to download and install the latest version of Flip4Mac, which now includes a Silverlight component:

http://dynamic.telestream.net/downloads/download-flip4macwmv.htm

But the latest news is that Microsoft will probably abandon Silverlight in favour of HTML5:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/10/29/apples_ios_pushes_microsoft_to_dia l_down_silverlight_for_html5.html and

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11673384

If you want to remove Silverlight the instructions are here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970064

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