Linux Clone of Microsoft’s Silverlight in Beta

“In terms of fleshing out the rest of Moonlight to match up with
Silverlight 2.0, De Icaza noted that Microsoft is making the effort
easier for Novell and others by open sourcing a number of pieces of
code. By open sourcing some Silverlight components De Icaza noted
that Novell doesn’t have to go and build them but can just use
Microsoft code itself.

“Among the Microsoft open sourced code that Moonlight will use
are Silverlight controls, the dynamic language runtime and all of
the dymanic languages that you can run in the browser like
IronPython.

“The browser plays a key role in how Novell is delivering
Silverlight compatibility to Linux users. For the Beta release
Novell has built a Mozilla Firefox extension for Moonlight that
lets users play Silverlight content within the browser. The
Moonlight extension currently supports Firefox 2 and 3 with a proof
of concept being built for Opera. De Icaza noted that he plans on a
WebKit version as well which would work for Apple Safari and Google
Chrome users as well.”

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