[Cialug] Google using Silverlight?

[David Champion]

Looks like Google (actually Doubleclick) is going to use Silverlight for 
some ads:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9111681&source=NLT_WS&nlid=20

This seems odd to me, being that Silverlight is so new, and so not 
cross-platform. The article does say that they'll also be using Flash 
and other formats, I'm guessing they can detect which player you have 
available???

The other thing I find odd is the focus of the article is how Google is 
beating MS to the "Silverlight advertising space". I don't see how that 
really matters... the "ad space" that matters is the web sites the ads 
are on, not the player used to view them (although from the end-user 
perspective, if you don't have a player that's supported on your 
platform... you can't view the content anyway). It's kind of like saying 
Panasonic is beating Sony in ads because more people use their cameras 
to film them.

-dc