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Moonlight 3.0 Preview
OPEN SAUCE OUTFIT Mono Project has released another version of its Moonlight 3.0 implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight.
This is the latest version of Novell's Silverlight plugin, which is compatible with Silverlight 3.0 and primarily intended for use on Linux and other Unix/X11 based operating systems.
Novell vice president of developer products and Mono guru Miguel de Icaza issued a blog post with a link to the preview. Icaza confirmed that the preview has a list of changes, "mostly on the infrastructure level necessary to support the rest of the features."
The Moonlight 3.0 preview is available to download for 32-bit and 64-bit systems and is licensed under the GNU LGPL 2 licence, except for the Microsoft Silverlight Controls and Unit Test Framework which is under the MS-PL licence and some managed code and tools under an MIT licence.
The feature set includes a platform abstraction layer that is in SVN so the core is separate from the windowing system engine and should be more easily portable to other operating systems. It now offers MP4 demuxer support but there are no codecs for it yet. The preview build has also fixed an issue that was causing other plugins to register themselves as handling Silverlight content. µ
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It is very nice that this "works" on Linux, but why encourage web sites to lock into Microsoft-dictated media formats when HTML5 is just around the corner?
We have Flash in the meantime -- why do we "need" silver-moon-micosoft-light to complicate our web sites and browser plug-ins?
ailverlight is pretty cool actually, but it's probably 3 years to late. and moonlight is pretty far behind.
html5 will need ie9 to support it. that's a big ?
According to Wikipedia HTML5 is expected to become a W3C recommendation by 2022!!
by then we will have flying cars, unlimited free energy and IE will still suck.