No, it's just that Moonlight is not compatible with the spec yet, I think. Same goes for Mono and .NET.
While we may rail against Silverlight and Flash, having had the opportunity to program in Silverlight, I think it's going to be pretty hard to replace it. Silverlight is actually rather fun to program with, and it can produce rich UIs quite quickly. First of all, HTML 5 might be good for videos, however it has its own share of problems, as Firefox for instance, only plays Theora videos, while Youtube's new HTML 5 implementation is using h264. Second, gaming is another huge factor. You need flash/silverlight to get good games on the web, especially if we invoke h/w acceleration. Third. I think that the Ipad/Iphone not having flash is more a technical reason (OS + chipset) than anything else. I can understand why flash might not be welcome on the Iphone, but the Ipad is meant as a browsing device. Whether we like it or not, flash is still heavily used on the web, and flash games are also pretty big.. especially among the target audience of non-geeks. (Farmville, etc.) On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti <[email protected]> wrote: > Apple are hoping for that too and not supporting flash either on their new > iPad. > > I too would like to get rid of all these binary plugin blobs. They just dont > help anyone with extra non distributable dependencies the web has become... > > On Jan 30, 2010 9:24 PM, "Anton Xuereb" <[email protected]> wrote: > > pray! for the html5 conversion may yet remove filth such as silverlight from > our lands! > > On 30 January 2010 21:20, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> > >> > Agreed. Microsoft seem to have come up with some new DRM. >> >> >> >> On Jan 30, 2010 5:53 PM, "Jean A... >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > MLUG-list mailing list >> > [email protected] >> ... > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
