Hello, > 1. What is the cross-platform availability of Silverlight? Any > experience?
A little. I looked at it a while ago. For GNU/Linux, there are some browser plugins (Moonlight project), but they didn't work out of the box. Firefox marked that plugin as incompatibile, so I had to disable the version check to make it work. Chromium didn't work at all. Using Firefox, I tested it on two things - Microsoft's smooth streaming demo site (silverlight-based media player adapting to client's CPU and network bandwith), which worked, but performance couldn't have been much worse (slideshow instead of playback) and one Windows-based media publishing system, which uses silverlight for playing presentations, but playback didn't work there at all (I'm not sure if it is a Moonlight issue, though). I didn't test it anywhere else and I quickly removed it from my machine afterwards. I should also mention that playing videos through Moonlight requires downloading proprietary codecs (which is handled by the plugin). > 2. Do you have any information about the deal between Microsoft [...] No idea there. Regards, Michal Docekal On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:26:03 +0100 Martin Husovec <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I was wondering if anybody could help us here with these two questions > which both relate to Silverlight/Moonlight. So: > > 1. What is the cross-platform availability of Silverlight? Any > experience? > > 2. Do you have any information about the deal between Microsoft and > Novel concerning Silverlight and Moonlight. Is is true that Microsoft > tries to release the specifications with some delay? So actually the > Moonlight can not work well even if the community tries. What is the > overall background of Moonlight development & release. > > Your help would be highly appreciated, > > Martin _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
