I got an email announcing an upcoming Utah Code Camp, scheduled for the last Saturday of this month. So I headed over to utahcodecamp.com and got this:
A giant black screen with small icon at the top center that said ‘Install Microsoft Silverlight’. Obviously I don’t have Silverlight installed and don’t really have an interest in installing it any time soon. Not one part of the site worked unless Silverlight was installed.
Through out the 1990s and early 2000s I worked hard to convince every designer who had discovered Flash, that no, they really don’t want to start creating every site in all Flash. It is disappointing to see this trend starting over again with Silverlight.