{"id":536,"date":"2008-03-05T17:57:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T16:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=536"},"modified":"2008-03-05T17:57:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T16:57:56","slug":"moonlight-update-silverlight-2-on-linux-hardly-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/536-moonlight-update-silverlight-2-on-linux-hardly-started.html","title":{"rendered":"Moonlight update: Silverlight 2 on Linux hardly started"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miguel de Icaza has an update on Moonlight<\/a>, a third-party but official implemention of Silverlight for Linux.<\/p>\n

Although progress is rapid, it is disappointing to read that a Silverlight 2.0 implementation is hardly started:<\/p>\n

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Silverlight 2.0<\/b> Other than the JIT support for Silvelright 2.0 at this point we have not done any work on it (well there are 3 classes stubbed privately). <\/p>\n

There are two reasons for this: the updated 2.0 API is not public and although we have access to it, it is a bit of a mess to try to keep two separate trees (public and private) to support this and since Mix is just around the corner, we will just wait until next week. <\/p>\n

The second reason is that we want to focus on shipping 1.0, completing the media pack integration and working on the configuration aspects of Moonlight (auto-update configuration for instance). <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Good reasons; but the question it raises is this: by how long will Linux implementations lag the Windows and Mac releases of Silverlight? Silverlight 2.0 is hugely important because it enables .NET code to run. I constantly meet folk who are developing for Silverlight but waiting for version 2.0 as the real thing. Version 1.0 is browser JavaScript only. <\/p>\n

More positively, at least we know that Mono already has a decent desktop implementation of .NET, so the fundamentals are there.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: silverlight<\/a>, moonlight<\/a>, mono<\/a>, linux<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miguel de Icaza has an update on Moonlight, a third-party but official implemention of Silverlight for Linux. Although progress is rapid, it is disappointing to read that a Silverlight 2.0 implementation is hardly started: Silverlight 2.0 Other than the JIT support for Silvelright 2.0 at this point we have not done any work on it … Continue reading Moonlight update: Silverlight 2 on Linux hardly started<\/span> →<\/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":[44,55,57,77,80,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-microsoft","category-mono","category-silverlight","category-software-development","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","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=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}