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Stuart · 16-09-2011, 13:23

Silverlight is still a plugin.. IE10 Metro will apparently not support any plugins.

It's also worth noting that Microsoft seem to be actively encouraging their developers to use HTML5 rather than Silverlight, so I suspect that after V5, Silverlight may not have much of a future.

16-09-2011, 13:23	#3
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: IE 10 'Metro' to ditch Plugins Silverlight is still a plugin.. IE10 Metro will apparently not support any plugins. It's also worth noting that Microsoft seem to be actively encouraging their developers to use HTML5 rather than Silverlight, so I suspect that after V5, Silverlight may not have much of a future.