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The New York Times releases Times Reader for Mac beta, requires Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin

Friday, May 23, 2008 · 9:10 am · 49 Comments

The New York Times today released a beta version of its Times Reader for the Mac; a free download for registered NYTimes.com members.

Rob Larson, Vice President, Digital Production, NYTimes.com, writes, “Please note that Times Reader for the Mac uses [Microsoft's] Silverlight plugin. The installation process will prompt you to install Silverlight if you do not already have it on your computer.”

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Mr. Reeee

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 9:13 am · Reply

What’s the point when I go to http://www.nytimes.com anyway?

Besides, it installs Microsoft’s Silverfish.
It even SOUNDS icky!
HMCIV

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 9:22 am · Reply

From my Wikipedia Dashboard Widget:

The favorite food of silverfish is any matter that contains starch or polysaccharides, such as dextrin in adhesives. These include glue, book bindings, paper, photos, sugar, hair, and dandruff. Silverfish can also cause damage to books, tapestries, and textiles. Silverfish will commonly graze in and around showers, baths, and sinks on the cellulose present in many shampoos, shaving foams and so on. Apart from these cases, the damage caused by silverfish is negligible and they have no direct effect on human health beyond psychological distress to those who are frightened or disgusted by their appearance. However, they also have a bite which may cause irritation but has no long term effects. Other substances that may be eaten include cotton, linen, silk and synthetic fibers, and dead insects or even its own exuvia (moulted exoskeleton). During famine, a silverfish may even attack leatherware and synthetic fabrics. In extreme cases, silverfish may live for a year without eating. [2] Silverfish are also known to sometimes find accommodation with ants in ant nests.[citation needed]
Ottawa Mark

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 9:23 am · Reply

While I haven’t had a chance to try the NY Times Reader yet, I have installed Silverlight at home in order to watch videos on demand on TSN (the Canadian ESPN). I haven’t had any problems with the newer TSN video player at all, and find it much more Safari-friendly than their previous one. That said, I do feel really dirty for installing Silverlight…*sigh* I like my hockey on demand, though…
cptnkirk

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 9:24 am · Reply

I wonder how much of the 50B$ not spent on Yahoo when on bribing NYT to use this crap.
ragarcia

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 9:29 am · Reply

Silverlight is much better at serving up MLB.com video than WMP ever was.

They still need to get some things fixed, but for a version 1.0 software it is pretty good.

Ugh, I suddenly feel dirty for having said all that…gonna take a hard scrub shower now.
Roberto

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 9:35 am · Reply

Sorry NYT,
I will not install anything in my Mac that requires any software made by Microsoft. Please supply users with a workaround. Thanks.
Macaday

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 9:39 am · Reply

KEEP MICROSOFT OFF MY MAC

No way is Silverlight getting loaded here.
loganson

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 9:43 am · Reply

I smell a boycott.
Gabriel

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:01 am · Reply

Didn’t Microsoft also recently announce that some new money-losing venture of theirs was “Mac-compatible”, only to have it turn out that it’s really only Silverlight-compatible?

And yeah, not installing Silverlight on my Mac either.

MW: should, as in these people should know better than to try to shoehorn new proprietary plugins into our browsers this late in the game. Use open internet standards, folks.
shen

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:02 am · Reply

“Silverlight is much better at serving up MLB.com video than WMP ever was.”

setting the bar pretty low there, aren’t you?
erk

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:03 am · Reply

just installed it and played around with it, not that bad actually, very fast to load and start whatever it has been coded for, it’s definatly not just for video

could microsoft have done something semi decent? (prob not)
Bender

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:06 am · Reply

There is NO WAY I’m going to contaminate my Mac with M$ crapware!
JAYGEE

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:08 am · Reply

I have Silverlight installed on my Mac, because I needed it to use ITV Catch up, which is ITV’s version of the BBC iPlayer.

It runs ok. Can’t tell of any difference between Adobe Flash & Microsoft Siverlight.
jackspratt

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:16 am · Reply

like others above, there’s no way in hell i’m installing MS Silverblight on my Mac.
NY Slimes Bites

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:17 am · Reply

Anti-American Commies. Don’t believe anything you read in that has been rag!
CandTsmac

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:20 am · Reply

Install Silverlight on a perfectly good Mac…..

Not a chance.
Steve

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:21 am · Reply

Tough crowd. The MS act got boo’d before it ever got onstage.
Nerd-Beautiful

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:22 am · Reply

Ack! The font looks TERRIBLE!

Wow. It’s all pixelated and janky. Oh horror of horrors! What have I done? How do I uninstall Silverlight? My God, I am stupid sometimes.
chris Rose

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:23 am · Reply

I have not installed or used anything Microshaft since way before OSX – and I sure as heck won’t start now…

Amazing how stupid some corporations – and people – are…

CR
BiZarRo BaLlmEr

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 10:29 am · Reply

SILVERLIGHT!?!

*throws egg*

*throws egg*

*throws egg*