Comment Re:Anyone uses Silverlight? (Score 1) 107
It did no good, of course, but I wrote an e-mail to the State of Minnesota complaining about the Minnesota Revenue "Where's My Refund" site. I can't think of any legitimate reason for a site like this to use Silverlight (or Flash or any other plugin). Here was my message:
Do you offer a non-Silverlight version of the income tax refund status application? It does not seem to work with a recent stable version of Moonlight, though I have tried little to try to make it work.
Further, why would Silverlight be of any benefit for such a (relatively) simple application? I deal with ASP.NET for a living, and I can't imagine any serious consideration of Silverlight for a public application like this one. Unless there are some requirements of which I am unaware, a simple ASP.NET application would more than suffice (because your site is already
.NET-based). Of course, there is little that can be done now, but perhaps next year...
Here was the ridiculous response:
Good Morning, There is no other version offered at this time. I do not know why this version was chosen.
Thank you for using our website.
Regards,
<name omitted to protect the stupid><name omitted to protect the stupid, again, since it was here twice>
Minnesota Department of Revenue
Individual Income Tax Division
This was in 2010, and of course, the same application is still in place.