[03:28] <olly_> if anyone lives in lower hutt, it looks like the council are trying to move their property info system to require silverlight, so you might want to send them some feedback
[03:28] <olly_> http://www.huttcity.govt.nz/en/Your-Council/News-and-notices/Latest-News/Test-our-GIS-Viewer/
[04:12] <chilts> in which case, when Lower and Upper Hutt merge, that'll mean all of us
[04:14] <ibeardslee> chilts: so throw a wobbly about it ;)
[04:15] <chilts> yes!
[04:15] <ajmitch> it's surprising to see anything new being done in silverlight these days
[04:19] <chilts> crazy
[04:19] <chilts> what percentage of people do you guys reckon could actually see that?
[04:21] <chilts> looks like the whole site is in ASP or .NET or whatever it is called
[04:23] <chilts> olly_: ibeardslee: feedback sent!
[04:23] <chilts> I ended with "What plans do you have to enable non-Windows, non-Silverlight people to access this data?"
[04:23] <chilts> after saying that everybody should have access
[04:35]  * olly_ suspects the MS claim it's cross-platform - the "download silverlight" thing points you to a mono website URL which doesn't work
[04:35] <olly_> moonlight seems to have died at least 2 years ago
[04:52] <G> chilts: but the consultants tell them, the only two operating systems in the world are Windows and OS X :P
[04:54] <chilts> :(
[04:54] <G> olly_: I'm guessing the current system is Flash similar to Auckland's?
[04:54] <chilts> and they get megabucks for doing so too
[04:54] <chilts> does Silverlight work on Mac then?
[04:54] <G> must do, because you don't hear people complaining about no Netflix on OS X
[04:55] <G> and in fact, a previous colleague in America sent me a photo, of her Macbook playing content from Netflix, so I'll presume so
[04:59] <chilts> didn't realise Netflix was Silverlight either
[04:59] <chilts> man, crazy
[04:59] <G> yeah, thats why Netflix (and for that matter, Quickflix) and Linux don't play nice
[05:00] <G> they use 'something else' for the SmartTVs etc
[05:07] <G> iirc, there was talk about a stub Firefox plugin for mono, that then passes off Silverlight stuff to the Silverlight DLL running under Wine
[05:08] <G> https://launchpad.net/pipelight they say it works with Netflix, so might work with the GIS viewer
[05:09] <G> (and where I said, mono, I obviously meant Silverlight)
[05:11] <olly_> G: no, currently it's just HTML and JS
[05:12] <olly_> http://gis2.huttcity.govt.nz/PES/
[05:12] <olly_> looks like it's asp server side
[05:18]  * olly_ wonders if launchpad's green buttons are meant to look so ugly
[09:04] <kcj> Morning.
[19:48] <ibeardslee> morning
[19:56] <olly_> morning
[20:34] <ajmitch> morning
[21:19] <hads> morning
[21:19] <chilts> morning