Comments on: Microsoft.com Downloads Beta in Silverlight

By: wojtekmaj is an idiot

wojtekmaj is an idiot — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:49:29 +0000

Who is “wojtekmaj”? Not intuitive, wojtekmaj? It’s a download page, wojtekmaj! If you can’t figure out a download page, you’re a complete idiot. And I went to your website… nice thumbnails. Hiding safely behind your thumbnails, I see.

By the way, saying “not intuitive” doesn’t make you seem smart. Constructive criticism makes you seem smart, wojtekmaj. I know you want to seem smart. Idiots like to seem smart. So I’m just giving you some advice. Good luck!

By the way, the download page was fine. Other than the latency problems, it looked clean and did what it was supposed to do. Geez…

By: Microsoft.com 下载中心 Beta 预览: 采用 Silverlight - LiveSino - LiveSide 中文版

Microsoft.com 下载中心 Beta 预览: 采用 Silverlight - LiveSino - LiveSide 中文版 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:26:18 +0000

[...] 月 29 日，微软悄悄地推出了通过 Silverlight 构建的 Beta 下载中心。Long Zheng [...]

By: quikboy

quikboy — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:21:19 +0000

Ok, I’ve installed and used Silverlight before, but it’s not working.

It tells me I don’t have it, I press the “Install” button, and everytime, it fails. It just won’t install.

It says I already do have the current one, but if I do, why won’t it work?

Can anyone help?

By: Avatar

Avatar — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:06:58 +0000

contextual controls will be supported in Silverlight whenever 1.1 final releases.

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:38:03 +0000

in contrary to the negative experiences from the users above me – i find it stunning! running excellent on my notebook.

By: TheThirdEye

TheThirdEye — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:10:07 +0000

why don’t Microsoft release the silverlight installer as a ActiveX or similar control in Firefox rather than a seperate download. I assume its an activeX control in IE but i havnt had a chance to try it.

By: Fredrik70

Fredrik70 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:21:23 +0000

OMG that site is really ugly and odd-looking, and the performance is appalingly bad.

By: tino

tino — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:54:37 +0000

It looks very nice (uuh Longhorn-esque buttons!) but I have the same concerns with Silverlight as with Flash: no ClearType for text, no ability to open links in a new window/tab and no zoom functionality. And does someone know if search engines can search such Silverlight pages and link directly to the download?

By: Edo

Edo — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:41:09 +0000

In firefox it doesn’t load correctly (or at least in 3.0b1 it doesn’t)
In IE I got an error when clicking a link in the browse downloads section:

Error Type: DownloadError
Error Message: AG_E_NETWORK_ERROR
Error Code: 4001

Other than that, it’s really MUCH better than the previous one, where a new page had to be loaded everytime you click something.

By: wojtekmaj

wojtekmaj — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:26:32 +0000

Not too intuitive in my opinion…