Net Framework and the C# language being one of them, but neither ActiveX1.0 nor ActiveX2.0 are among those great innovations.

Microsoft have created some spectacularly great innovations through out their history, the. Silverlight is nothing but ActiveX in a new wrapping with a new name and some new fancy colors - or ActiveX2.0 if you wish.

I know it sounds drastic, but the 'object tag' should have been the clue-giver here. But if you can be positively certain about that your customers are purely going to want to use your applications with Microsoft based Operating Systems, then I guess it doesn't matter that much for you. Which all together translates into less customers (users) for your applications. Not to mention that they have probably less then 1% of the mobile phones in this world. For you to follow this strategy is obviously quite dangerous since Microsoft is bleeding market shares to Linux and especially Mac OS X on the client. Silverlight will occasionally and partially work with many non-Microsoft based Operating Systems, but once Microsoft have acquired the market share they want for Silverlight they will have no financial incentives in getting Silverlight to work with neither Mac OS X, Linux, Symbian, iPhone or any other Operating Systems in this world not created by themselves - in fact their financial incentives will be in getting it NOT to work on non-MS based Operating Systems since this will drive adoption of their Operating Systems like Windows 7, WindowsMobile etc.

Entirely drop any non-Microsoft based OS support for your application.

Port your application to the W3C platform (ECMA, CSS, (X)HTML) utilizing some sort of Ajax library - and hence get rid of the problem permanently.

Keep on developing with Silverlight and expect these kind of problems surfacing frequently in the future - even if you can get your application to work this time, it'll still surface later down the road every once in a while.

This is a known problem and you've basically got three options It looks like javascript problem, but currently do not know where. Other browsers (opera, chrome, ie, safari) display the SL control correctly. Same for me, when i use plain aspx page to host silverlight 3 control it works : īut when i include my silverlight object (inside aspx page) between another div (to resize or nothing else for example), i got a blank page under firefox 3.5 : ĭo the test by yourself with a new VS project.

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