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Netflix ready to abandon Silverlight for HTML5
Netflix appears to be transferring its online video service from Microsoft's Silverlight platform to the increasingly popular HTML5. The news will come as a massive blow to Silverlight because Netflix is one of its most important clients. A blog post by Netflix's director of web engineering, Adrian Cockroft, reveals the company's intention to embrace HTML5.
"As we roll out our website to run on the Amazon cloud, we are also re-architecting the code base and bringing in the latest technologies," says Cockroft. "One of these is HTML5, which is raising the bar for cross browser support for advanced user interface features, and is now supported by a large and rapidly growing percentage of the visitors to netflix.com."
In the same blog, Cockroft posts a Netflix job advert for a senior user interface engineer with expertise in HTML5. The advert reveals Netflix is "using HTML5-based web technologies to move e-commerce directly onto televisions in our customers' living rooms".
