Silverlight on Linux

Ryan Paul is claiming over on arstechnica that Miguel (aka. the mono guy) is planning on bringing Silverlight to Linux:

"Mono project lead developer Miguel de Icaza says that the Mono development community plans to have an experimental Linux-based Silverlight browser plug-in ready for testing by the end of the year. Silverlight, Microsoft's new .NET-based technology for rapid development of interactive rich media applications, is currently only supported on Windows and Mac OS X. The Mono developers intend to use the documentation published by Microsoft to create a plug-in that is compatible with Silverlight 1.1, which is currently still in early stages of development. "

Unfortunately, he doesn't cite any of his sources for this claim, but Miguel does seem very interested in Silverlight lately so it wouldn't suprise me.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070507-mono-developers-to-bring-silverlight-to-linux.html

3 Comments

  • His blog talks about it a bit:
    http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/May-01.html

    Here's the news article:
    http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9714669-7.html

    And the bloody aftermath:
    http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/03/2033219&from=rss

    I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time with Miguel at MIX, and I can confirm that he is planning on implementing Silverlight on Mono. He's very excited about it.

  • Hi Jesse,

    A few days ago I did a post on silverlight and other points of interest:

    http://weblogs.asp.net/jmandia/archive/2007/05/07/Points-of-interest-_2300_6.aspx

    One of the links there was Moonlight which is Mono's project for Silverlight.

    John

  • Yep, the intentions of the Mono project are public knowledge:
    http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2007/May-05.html

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