Silverlight On Its Way

May 22nd, 2008 by Webmistress

For those of you itching to run Microsoft Silverlight applications on Linux, the Mono-based implementation of Silverlight, Moonlight, is on its way.

You can check out the progress here: http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight (opens in new window).

The project's goals are:

  • To run Silverlight applications on Linux.
  • To provide a Linux SDK to build Silverlight applications.
  • To reuse the Silverlight engine we have built for desktop applications.

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Options Like Silverlight, we Don't need.

On May 23rd, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) says:

Options Like Silverlight, we Don't need.

Mono

On May 22nd, 2008 alphakamp says:

Congrats mono for another successful project. But I don't want anything to do with silverlight.

not alone

On May 23rd, 2008 Webmistress says:

I feel like you are probably not alone, but it is nice to have options.

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