On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:09 -0600, Brandon Stout wrote: > Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > Oops, I wasn't reading plug yesterday so I missed this thread until > > today. I thought I should clarify a few things regarding Moonlight. > > Is moonlight a flash player?
No, but it's very similar. An animation engine and a scripting engine to control the animations. > > Novell will provide Moonlight plugins for FF2 and FF3 that will be > > compatible with supported versions (meaning not end-of-life) of major > > linux distributions (Fedora, Ubuntu, [open]SuSE, probably RedHat) on > > i586 and x86_64. > > Is this going to be a 64 bit flash plugin replacement? In a sense yes but really no. Many companies are moving their rich web client stuff to silverlight (or at least experimenting with it). /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
