Ask HN: Do you have an aversion to Silverlight web apps?
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Yes, but I'm an outlier: I'm a Linux desktop user.
(Moonlight has proven to be only moderately passable in my testing, and even then, only in those cases where DRM wasn't a requirement.)
But speaking more generally: when I'm at the keyboard of a more popular operating system, I have an aversion to websites that insist I install something to make use of them aside from the web browser I'm already using (and a very, very small selection of add-ons).
That's the bias you have to overcome to get my eyes on your web app. Whether those eyes are useful to you is your call. :)
(Moonlight has proven to be only moderately passable in my testing, and even then, only in those cases where DRM wasn't a requirement.)
But speaking more generally: when I'm at the keyboard of a more popular operating system, I have an aversion to websites that insist I install something to make use of them aside from the web browser I'm already using (and a very, very small selection of add-ons).
That's the bias you have to overcome to get my eyes on your web app. Whether those eyes are useful to you is your call. :)
Silverlight, for me, has been buggy, slow, and required frequent obtrusive updates. Yes, I do have an aversion to using them.
I have an aversion to microsoft products...period.
These apps may target the HN community, so I'm curious, do you have an aversion to using a Silverlight based app? If you do, would you reconsider if the app solves a problem that you have in a novel way?
Thanks in advance.