{"id":208,"date":"2007-05-03T18:57:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2007-05-03T18:57:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T17:57:08","slug":"mono-may-implement-silverlight-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/208-mono-may-implement-silverlight-for-linux.html","title":{"rendered":"Mono may implement Silverlight for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mono lead Miguel de Icaza <a href=\"http:\/\/tirania.org\/blog\/archive\/2007\/May-01.html\" target=\"_blank\">likes Silverlight<\/a>. He says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It makes tons of sense for us to start looking at an implementation of Silverlight on Linux with Mono. There is already a XAML loader, it is the perfect excuse to use Antigrain for high-speed graphics and that only leaves the pesky media issue to be solved. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, am kind of happy that Microsoft did not do the port themselves as implementing this sounds incredibly fun and interesting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft should grab this offer, if it is serious about cross-platform.&nbsp;Although Linux&nbsp;currently only forms a small proportion of desktop operating systems, it is nevertheless significant; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuntu<\/a> in particular is making a big impact. Mac\/Windows only may be kind-of good enough for the USA, but that&#8217;s not the case worldwide.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:e25e6c2e-2ba5-4421-90ab-3de94ce7886b\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/mix07\" rel=\"tag\">mix07<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/silverlight\" rel=\"tag\">silverlight<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/mono\" rel=\"tag\">mono<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mono lead Miguel de Icaza likes Silverlight. He says: It makes tons of sense for us to start looking at an implementation of Silverlight on Linux with Mono. There is already a XAML loader, it is the perfect excuse to use Antigrain for high-speed graphics and that only leaves the pesky media issue to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/208-mono-may-implement-silverlight-for-linux.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mono may implement Silverlight for Linux<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,80,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-software-development","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}