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Google will kill Microsoft Silverlight in Chrome by disabling NPAPI plug-in

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Silverlight's end of life has been announced. Microsoft is even phasing it out of its own product offerings. The example I am thinking of is their data visualization tool, Power View, which is taking the helm as their dashboard design platform. It was originally developed with Silverlight, but pretty much all current development is in the HTML5 fork in PowerBI.

On the Netflix front, Chrome has had HTML5 streaming since late last summer.

I think the bigger news is killing NPAPI, not specifically Silverlight.

Edit: Typoes.

I haven't gone reading the article in detail.

What happens to the streaming providers like Netflix etc that use Silverlight ? Would they stop working too ?

Netflix is already moving to HTML5 video http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/05/yosemite-finally-allows-netfli...

And everyone is silent... But if it was Microsoft trying to use it's weight to kill off some net technology it doesn't like/own.

I think we can all agree killing off NPAPI is the right choice. As google said it's ancient tech and it's holding them back. Netflix is the only thing I ever use that uses NPAPI, via Silverlight, and even they are moving to HTML5 video [0]. Also MS already killed off Silverlight [1] and other plugins. This is where we WANT to go with the web, a plugin-free world is goal...

Let's not try to make this a "If MS did this everyone would be up in arms" issue because that's not what it is. The article is super click-baity as Google isn't saying "Fuck You" to MS but to ALL of NPAPI which has outlived it's usefulness IMHO.

[0] http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/05/yosemite-finally-allows-netfli...

[1] http://www.itworld.com/article/2736986/enterprise-software/m...

I think Amazon Instant Video is also on Silverlight ?

Yes, I think they originally used Flash then switched to Silverlight. Not sure if they still support the flash player though. That said I'd bet they will be moving to HTML5 soon.

Not to mention, Silverlight is near death and should be phased out. According to MS, it's going until 2021 (or until browsers stop supporting it) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?c2=12905

Oh thank goodness. We should be celebrating the end of NPAPI

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