Will the Chrome OS and Web App Store Support Silverlight?

[JeffWeber]

I notice the Chrome OS and App Store are supporting Flash. Any chance
it will also support Silverlight, which now has close to a 60% install
base?

[Jesse]

I think impossible.

Maybe, someday in future, Flash will be throw away and only HTML5
left.

[PhistucK]

Slim chances. Depends on the relationship of Google and Microsoft. ;)

☆PhistucK

2010/5/20 Jesse <baiyu...@gmail.com>

[JeffWeber]

Yeah, I also think it's a slim chance. I think tech like flash and
silverlight are needed, though, to bridge the gap between where things
stand to day and what HTML5 will eventually provide.

I've been using Silverlight for a while, it is good tech, would be
nice if Google offered it in addition to Flash.

On May 20, 6:14 am, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Slim chances. Depends on the relationship of Google and Microsoft. ;)
>
> ☆PhistucK
>

> 2010/5/20 Jesse <baiyuxi...@gmail.com>

[Proctor]

Does anybody have any real answers? People shouldn't be questioning
the value of support of a 3rd party plug-in, that's for developers and
consumers to decide. Getting into a fanboy argument on what
languages and APIs that people should use isn't productive.

I hope they do support Silverlight, because there's a huge number of
XNA games that can be ported over relatively easily.

[Gregor Hochmuth]

We always want to emphasize that these apps are regular web apps -- really anything that runs in Chrome or other modern browsers today could be turned into an installable web app with a minimal amount of extra glue (including apps that use Silverlight, Flash, Native Client, Unity, etc). 

As with all plugins, you'd be limited to the users who have the plugin installed, which is why we encourage using standards like HTML5 that will work consistently across all platforms.

-Greg

2010/5/20 Proctor <apro...@gmail.com>

[JeffWeber]

So, to be clear about this. I could build a game in Silverlight and
add it to the Google Web App Store and charge (or not) for it??
Really that is my question/goal.

Very cool if this is true.

-Jeff

On May 20, 5:50 pm, Gregor Hochmuth <ghochm...@chromium.org> wrote:
> We always want to emphasize that these apps are regular web apps -- really
> anything that runs in Chrome or other modern browsers today could be turned

> into an installable web app <http://code.google.com/chrome/apps> with a

> minimal amount of extra glue (including apps that use Silverlight, Flash,
> Native Client, Unity, etc).
>
> As with all plugins, you'd be limited to the users who have the plugin
> installed, which is why we encourage using standards like HTML5 that will
> work consistently across all platforms.
>
> -Greg
>

> 2010/5/20 Proctor <aproc...@gmail.com>

[DJ Necrogami]

Keep in mind the install architecture officially Silverlight only
installs on windows although moonlight does work on Linux, DRM does
not. (Which excludes sties like Netflix from working on linux) Just
keep in mind your installation targets OS when building and designing
applications.

Anton

2010/5/20 JeffWeber <farsee...@gmail.com>:

[JeffWeber]

Silverlight will run on both Windows and Macs. That'll be good enough
for me.

On May 20, 8:18 pm, DJ Necrogami <djnecrog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Keep in mind the install architecture officially Silverlight only
> installs on windows although moonlight does work on Linux, DRM does
> not. (Which excludes sties like Netflix from working on linux) Just
> keep in mind your installation targets OS when building and designing
> applications.
>
> Anton
>

> 2010/5/20 JeffWeber <farseerga...@gmail.com>:

[JeffWeber]

While, I think I understand now that the Web App Store will support
Silverlight because it supports web apps in general. That is cool

What about the 1st part of my question. Will the Chrome OS support
Silverlight or will it not since it's Linux based?

Jeff Weber
www.farseergames.com

[PhistucK]

My answer was regarding Chrome OS only, actually.

Greg, can you spare some details regarding the option of supporting Silverlight in Chrome OS?

☆PhistucK

2010/5/21 JeffWeber <farsee...@gmail.com>

[PhistucK]

That fact that it is supported on Linux, does not necessarily mean it is supported on Chrome OS. Remember that it is not a regular Linux distribution.

☆PhistucK

2010/5/21 DJ Necrogami <djnec...@gmail.com>

Silverlight is already supported on Linux via Moonlight project.

Now with that said DRM is NOT supported on linux. So any site that
requires silverlight with drm will not be supported. (Such as Netflix)

2010/5/21 PhistucK <phis...@gmail.com>:

[Markus]

Remember that Silverlight is nowhere to be seen on mobile devices, nor
Google TV, iPads, Tablets (except Microsoft devices). Not a good idea
to use a proprietary technology.

Markus

[JeffWeber]

Well, there are still plenty of people using the web old-school. . .
on a desktop.

I have existing Silverlight games I'd like to monetize and I'm
accessing whether the chromium web app store could be use for those
purposes.

I'm also building games that will run on the Windows Phone 7 and I'm
pushing Microsoft to build a version of Silverlight for the Chromium
"Native Client" similar to what Unity is doing.

[Hugh Isaacs II]

Chrome OS could support Silverlight through Moonlight if someone ports
it to Native Client and turns it into a Chrome extension.

My biggest question though is how would the Silverlight Out-Of-Browser
features work inside of Chrome OS? Would it just render out of browser
content in a new tab? How can features like the document folder access
work? etc...

In the future Microsoft could support Chrome OS by porting Silverlight
to the NPAPI Pepper interface, but that's far from done right now so
it'll be a while before we see that.

[Forbin]

You could delegate that interaction to javascript.

On May 30, 4:34 pm, Hugh Isaacs II <hughisaa...@livedoor.com> wrote:
> Chrome OS could supportSilverlightthrough Moonlight if someone ports