Linux Project Moonlight
- Filed under: Event News & Updates, Software Tools
- Date: May 17,2008
Silverlight is Microsoft’s foray into building interactive Rich Internet Applications. Microsoft has been pushing hard at getting the developer community, adopt this new framework but faces stiff competition from Adobe Flash and Fle x which have a huge developer base.
Having said that, the Silverlight website showcases some amazing applications that are powered by this new framework. Analysts believe a new mobile version will be out soon which will make it a stronger competitor to the existing Flash Lite framework.
Microsoft has released browser plugins for Windows and OS X but it’s not a surprise that Linux was left out, as usual. Here’s where Moonlight comes in for the Linux world..
Building on the Mono Project’s Linux implementation of the dot Net framework, Moonlight aims to provide both a Linux SDK to build Silverlight apps and a stand-alone Silverlight runtime.
To get started, firefox plugins for Silverlight are available at the Moonlight page. Firefox3 support is available in their experimental builds.
[anojrs.blogspot.com] By Anoj
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