Hi guys,
What are the current possibilities to run silverlight on the iPad please ? Other than the video streaming MS demo of course.
If there's no official packages or something, I'm interested in hacks too
Thanks
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A:
Have a look at this article:
Also, perhaps you can give us more of an idea what you are trying to achieve with silverlight for a more detailed answer?
You should also bear in mind that the main issue is the support on the apple devices - a political decisions by Apple. There are ways and means to get the support unofficially, but I can vouch for them being flawed and as good as useless.
Dave
2010-10-04 08:41:26
Hi Dave, thank you for your answer. I checked out the link above and actually this solution is too young and not yet efficient at all, I was wondering if there was actually a solution that installs silverlight directly on the iPad, so avoiding the distributed rendering. I guess there's no way yet but well... Let's hope this will come soon
Miloud B.
2010-10-04 09:30:48
No bother, I'm sorry to advise that there is no silverlight support natively, primarily (as mentioned) for political reasons between Microsoft and Apple. I can't see any mention of this being in the pipeline either, which is obviously not ideal for you either. Sorry I couldn't deliver better news for you.
Dave
2010-10-04 09:35:37
@Dave: +1 for the link. Interesting idea... send input to another server running the Flash/Silverlight app and send the result back (as video?). For a typical Silverlight/Flash app the round-tripping must kill performance/interactivity. Not sure they will ever solve that. I prefer frames per second to seconds per frame :)
Enough already
2010-10-04 11:10:13