Comments on: Is Silverlight embedding Flash Player?

By: Silverlight 2 beta 2: cross domain connections, more controls, and animation « Vijay’s Web Blog

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:58:18 +0000

[...] I saw this on the same day as some Adobe folks showed me an old thread that showed MLB.tv sneaking a context menu saying “About Silverlight” into the Flash version [...]

By: Adeyemi Babatunde

Adeyemi Babatunde — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:01:34 +0000

It’s very amusing to see what some technology people would do to push their baby forward. Let’s not blame them for doing that. As earlier said by the other commenters, MLB is just trying to help M$ft push its technology forward.

By: scott

scott — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:34:37 +0000

Microsoft is throwing a lot of money around. MLB, The Summer Olympics on NBC.com will be delivered to us via Silverlight. That is one way to increase plug-in installs quickly. The other way is to force it down in a Windows or Office update. I am just waiting for them to come knocking on Disney’s or ABC’s door so I can help slam it back in their face

By: Silverlight dentro de aplicações em Flash?! - Profissionais de Web

Silverlight dentro de aplicações em Flash?! - Profissionais de Web — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:04:20 +0000

[...] Encontrei essa imagem no blog do Charles Freedman onde ele estava indignado perguntando se é possível colocar uma aplicação em SIlverlight dentro de outra aplicação em Flash. Na verdade o menu que o Silverlight coloca está junto com o do Flash, como se estivessem juntos. Será que é possível ou foi somente um bug? COMPARE NO JÁCOTEI Artigos relacionados [...]

By: chuckstar22

chuckstar22 — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:53:14 +0000

@Rob

Very familiar with context menu… but I’ve never seen the ‘About…’ mimic’d like this before within the context menu AND by a competing player.

By: chuckstar22

chuckstar22 — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:51:41 +0000

@Phillip

Yeh, but why even add it to the context menu? Just feels like such cheap publicity.

By: Phillip Kerman

Phillip Kerman — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:56:39 +0000

It’s just the context menu… totally a non issue despite some blog posts from Adobe folks.

By: Tim Price

Tim Price — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:18:31 +0000

Word on the street is that M$ paid MLB big bucks to migrate to Silverlight and supplied them with developers. Maybe said developers felt the need to ‘fake it’ when the Silverlight service crashed on opening day. It all seems a bit fishy, but then again, it is M$, so nothing surprises me.

By: Rob Toole

Rob Toole — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:36:31 +0000

Hey Chuck check out this pic I posted:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/97166968@N00/2407988358/

When you create your own component sets in flash you can add additional items like in this pic of Accella’s cast player. It’s still flash but it’s being passed by the swf as an additional right click parameter. In this case it allows Accella to syndicate their player as well as add different info reating to the content.

Basically I would bet that you do not have Silverlight on your machine, they have just sneakily added this in to tie in Silverlight, though your media is indeed flash. As you said, probably a licensing thing with Microsoft.