I'm posting this because I know a lot of people grumbled about how the MatchDayLive player (and some videos on MLSSoccer.com) were implemented in Silverlight instead of Flash. People didn't like having to install another media playback software on their computer, and some complained that it didn't work very well for them. For those people, this article may be good news. On the face, little has changed. Microsoft will still be supporting Silverlight, and still plans to release a new version. But it's clear that it's no longer the golden boy of their web strategy. This is important, because I believe one of the major, perhaps only, reasons that Silverlight saw professional application like MDL and the '08 Olympics is that Microsoft was pushing it. That push is going to go away. Clearly, MLS has some major web cleanup to do in the off-season, and while most of it will be targeted toward the utter fustercluck that is MLSSoccer.com, a redesign of MatchDayLive wouldn't be out of the question either. Hopefully they'll find little incentive to stick with Silverlight and will consider moving to HTML5, or at least back to Flash. ------RM
As a Linux user, I've never been able to get Silverlight (actually Novell's Moonlight, the open source equivalent) to work correctly, so I'd be more than happy with MLS dropping Silverlight for Flash or something else.
They'll be dropping it for HTML5 more than likely, the browser agnostic successor/replacement for Flash. Basically what HTML5 means for you is that you would never have to update or download Flash for web videos, it is a standard that comes with your browser.
Why does the TFC.ca videos work on Linux (and not mlssoccer.com)? I thought they are also using neulion?