On 6 March 2012 07:46, E. Liddell <ejlddll@...> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 23:54:19 -0500
> Kristopher Gamrat <chaotickjg@...> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote:
>> > On 5 March 2012 23:26, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@...> wrote:
>> >> On 03/05/2012 09:45 PM, Kristopher Gamrat wrote:
>> >>> So far nobody's mentioned Bing. I know many hard-core FOSS peoples
>> >>> (myself included) would never touch it, but many new users might.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Good point...
>> >
>> > I say we ignore it. Don't some of the features require Silverlight? At
>> > one point they did. My vote is no.
>>
>> What's Silverlight? I never heard of it. I just tested Bing in
>> Firefox, and it worked fine. The video previews in their video search
>> was a bit glitchy, but I was able to click the videos and watch them
>> normally. All their other search functions (web, images, maps, news,
>> and shopping) seemed to operate fine too. Although Bing is way to
>> flashy for me, and does not operate/organize itself in a way that I'd
>> consider using it,
>
> Silverlight was Microsoft's attempt at a Flash clone.  For obvious reasons,
> it never really caught on.
>
> While I, personally, dislike Bing and would never use it, I support adding it
> to the list of search engines, if only to make moving from Windows to
> Linux with Trinity infinitesimally easier for some people.
>

Bing also probably doesn't render well or fast on Konqueror, another
reason to not use it at least until we switch away from KHTML.

Calvin