Implementing Microsoft Silverlight for UNIX by Mono Project - Moonlight
People from the Mono Project started making the implementation of Microsoft Silverlight technology for UNIX-based systems. The project is called Moonlight .
For those who don't know, Microsoft Silverlight is a new technology that allows you to use the great features of the .NET CLR and XAML with some WPF in web browsers. The technology was originally designed as a cross-platform (at the moment Microsoft supports IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari browsers on Windows and MacOS platforms). Now is the turn for UNIX. If the guys from Mono do the job (and I'm sure they will, since they already have a ready-made implementation of the .NET CLR), then we will have almost completely portable Silverlight.
In conclusion, I want to add that the frequent comparison of Silverlight with Flash in my opinion is not very true. Yes, Silverlight can be used for the same purposes as Flash, but this is a completely different berry field. I would say that Silverlight is more like a modern, lightweight equivalent of Java applets with support for advanced UI creation technologies (WPF-like). I think the general trend that Silverlight is creating is a soft “thickening” of the web client and a departure from JavaScript / AJAX / Flash technologies that are in my opinion ugly.
In conclusion, I am interested in looking at a poster illustrating Silverlight technology.
For those who don't know, Microsoft Silverlight is a new technology that allows you to use the great features of the .NET CLR and XAML with some WPF in web browsers. The technology was originally designed as a cross-platform (at the moment Microsoft supports IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari browsers on Windows and MacOS platforms). Now is the turn for UNIX. If the guys from Mono do the job (and I'm sure they will, since they already have a ready-made implementation of the .NET CLR), then we will have almost completely portable Silverlight.
In conclusion, I want to add that the frequent comparison of Silverlight with Flash in my opinion is not very true. Yes, Silverlight can be used for the same purposes as Flash, but this is a completely different berry field. I would say that Silverlight is more like a modern, lightweight equivalent of Java applets with support for advanced UI creation technologies (WPF-like). I think the general trend that Silverlight is creating is a soft “thickening” of the web client and a departure from JavaScript / AJAX / Flash technologies that are in my opinion ugly.
In conclusion, I am interested in looking at a poster illustrating Silverlight technology.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/11110/
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