Opera for Windows supports Silverlight. Unfortunately, most of Silverlight applications check the browser version so Silverlight doesn't start in Opera. Even Opera's "Mask as" feature doesn't work. So I wrote silverlight.js script to bypass it.
How to install Silverlight in Opera
- Download and install Opera (tested on 9.25, 9.50 beta 1 and 9.50 beta 2 on Windows XP)
- Download and install Silverlight
- Copy DLL files from "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight" to "C:\Program Files\Opera\program\plugins"
- Download silverlight.js to your User Javascript directory (e.g. "C:\Program Files\Opera\userjs")
- Restart browser
- Try some of the Silverlight examples below
Examples
- http://www.robzelt.com/Silverlight/TrinugLogo/
- http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/demos.php
- http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/
- http://silverlight.net/showcase/
- http://www.vertigo.com/downloads/Simon/
- more
Known problems
- Keyboard input doesn't work
- Problems with drag and drop
- On some sites don't work
- Opera sometimes crashes
Any feedback is appreciated.
Silverlight 2.0
This script works for Silverlight 1.0. For Silverlight 2.0 no script is required. Just install Silverlight 2.0 and visit some page with that is using silverlight 2.0. (for example http://www.vectorlight.net/silverlight_net_form_controls_demo.aspx)
4 comments:
Ta! This workaround works for me. ^_^
Great on some sites if it works. But on that list only the top one seems to work at the moment.
will it work on the Mac version of Opera?
I don't know much about Mac, but if you are able to make Opera use Silverlight libraries (it is shown at opera:plugins) it should work.
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