ITV have confirmed their apparent defection from the Microsoft Silverlight camp last Friday. Instead, their content is now provided via Adobe Flash. This is unfortunate news for Microsoft; while ITV state that they continue “to use Microsoft’s products extensively to develop and deliver solutions”, it doesn’t change the fact that Microsoft haven’t had as much impact on Adobe’s dominance as they no doubt hoped to.
This may be about to change - they have announced plans to start rolling out more wooshy Silverlight applets across their sites, including MSN – one of the most visited sites on the net. Such a move is bound to help boost their (approximately) 33% share, which in turn would give web developers (and their clients) greater confidence in developing for the format. This in turn would help drive greater market share, which in turn etc. An interesting article on the subject can be found here.
In other Web TV news, a recent Wii update has stopped the BBC iPlayer from working reliably. The update brought Flash 8 to the console, but had side effects ranging from programs dropping part way through, to failing to work entirely.
The BBC have confirmed that there is something wrong, and have stated that they are “currently working to resolve these issues with the iPlayer website” so it shouldn’t be long before we are able to waggle away at tv [recently] gone by. More here.
Nick Nawrattel
Lead Multimedia Developer
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