Silverlight Built For Linux In 21 Days
Miguel de Icaza writes about the intense coding work done by his team, working 12-16 hours over the last 21 days to build a version of Microsoft’s Silverlight platform to run under Linux. Calling the project Moonlight, the project was prompted by Microsoft France’s Marc Jalabert, who invited them to do it for the ReMix conference, and the team built the whole thing to run in Firefox under Linux in just three weeks.
They wrote 24,373 lines of C++, 1,367 lines for the C# binding, and 13,207 lines of C# class libraries. It looks like it runs standard Silverlight apps well, which means Silverlight now runs under Windows, Mac and Linux, and under Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. What’s taking so long with the Opera version?
(via TechMeme)
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To the best of my knowledge, Silverlight has support for digital restrictions management. I don’t believe the Linux version has implemented that this quickly (luckily).
This must mean that it’s a partial implementation. (Oh, and if I seem hostile towards Silverlight… I don’t see a need for another web application and graphics platform, ESPECIALLY knowing that it restricts users.)
I wish Microsoft the best of luck losing the next web battle.
Comment by Tim | June 28, 2007