The app was also then used for the 2010 Winter Olympics. It even pulled major partners-including NBC, which used the app to stream the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Does Netflix use Silverlight?ĭuring its release in 2007, Microsoft Silverlight became a huge success. The program exposes a downloader object, which can then be used to download content-such as media assets, scripts, or other data-that may be required by the application. Silverlight also makes it possible to load Extendable Markup Language (XML) contents that can be manipulated through a Document Object Model (DOM) interface. It also supports VC-1 video, but both VC-1 video and H.264 are only licensed for personal and non-commercial use. It supports Windows Media Video (WMV), Windows Media Audio (WMA), Advanced Audio Coding, MPG3, and H.264 across all supported browsers without the need for the traditional Windows-based players. In Safari, the test seems to render okay but then I get an error from Safari itself: 'A problem occured with this webpage so it was reloaded', leading to the page being reloaded automatically until Safari gives up and tells me that an error repeatedly occured with the page.On top of that, the software gives developers a way to enable rich animations using Windows-based formats.However, the test linked above merely offers an 'Install Microsoft Silverlight' icon. In Chrome: I had to use the 'Get more extensions' option inside of Chrome to install.

FYI, the plugin is set on 'Always activate' in about:addons and disabling AdBlock did not help. In Firefox: the official 'Get Silverlight' page tells me the plugin is installed ('Silverlight 5 (4.0)'), however the test page linked above renders black.To install, I'm merely using the Silverlight.dmg file and its installer to install. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing Silverlight but without success. I had Silverlight version 4 installed before but never got it to work (I don't know if this was before or after my Yosemite update.) (As opposed to a big black square of nothing.) 2) Troubleshooting This should offer a menu and various content, mostly pictures. To start with, can anyone tell me if this Silverlight test works for them on Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10.1) ? I'm not getting much success at all so far, nor help from the Web. I'm trying to get Silverlight to work on Mac OS X, any browser would do.

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