"The open-source Mono project will show off an early version of Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in running on Linux later this week. Work on the plug-in, called Moonlight , was started only in May, after Microsoft's Mix conference. Moonlight uses version 1.1 of Silverlight, a browser plug-in for...

Miguel de Icaza is writing yesterday on his blog that he wrote a Silverlight plugin for Linux : "The past 21 days have been some of the most intense hacking days that I have ever had and the same goes for my team that worked 12 to 16 hours per day every single day --including weekends-- to implement...

Fresh on the heals of the Silverlight 2.0 announcements, Miguel de Icaza of Novel has some of his own: "Miguel de Icaza demoed the Moonlight project at the XML 2007 Conference in Boston this week! He said the first version (Moonlight 1.0) would be released within six months. Moonlight 2.0 is expected...

Well, the year 2007 is nearly at the end and I have my short wish list for Microsoft Silverlight . The following (maybe not complete) unsorted list would be nice to see in 2008 with the next CTP or final version: When building Silverlight 2.0 Web applications I must be able to consume services (REST...