Microsoft announced yesterday the official release of Silverlight 1.0, a versatile .NET development framework that makes it possible for developers to build web applications that incorporate rich media content and elaborate user interfaces. Although Silverlight support was initially only planned for Windows and Mac OS X, Microsoft has announced plans to extend full Silverlight support to the Linux operating system in collaboration with Novell.
Miguel de Icaza, Novell's lead Mono developer and vice president of developer platforms, revealed plans earlier this year to build Moonlight, an open-source Silverlight implementation for Linux that runs on top of Mono. Although de Icaza had initially planned to finish creating an early prototype by the end of the year, he and his team decided to shorten the timeline and attempt to create a working plugin in time for the MIX07 event in Paris in June. After an epic 20-day hackathon, during which a team of deeply committed Novell developers worked 12- to 16-hour days and produced tens of thousands of lines of code, a functioning Moonlight prototype was made available for download.
Microsoft now plans to work closely with Novell to ensure that Silverlight is fully supported on the Linux platform. In a blog entry, de Icaza discusses the scope of Microsoft's involvement in Novell's Silverlight development project. "We have had a cordial relationship with many developers at Microsoft for quite some time," de Icaza writes in his blog entry. "Today we are formalizing a collaboration between Microsoft and Novell with the explicit purpose of bringing Silverlight to Linux and do this in a fully supported way."
According to de Icaza, Microsoft will be providing Novell with access to Silverlight test suites to ensure compatibility with Microsoft's proprietary implementation along with additional documentation to help facilitate ongoing development and strong support for future versions, including the upcoming 1.1 release. Microsoft also plans to make binary video and audio codecs that are compatible with the open-source plug-in available for download to individual Moonlight users directly from the Microsoft web site. Since there are no intellectual property impediments limiting distribution of the plug-in itself, Novell plans to make Moonlight available to all Linux users—not just Novell enterprise customers—and will provide both RPM and DEB packages for inclusion in major Linux distributions as well as source code. Although Moonlight presently only supports Firefox on Linux, de Icaza and the Moonlight team hope to collaborate with developers to bring Moonlight support to other browsers and open-source operating systems.
The Mono development team is also working on additional projects that will augment Silverlight support on the Linux platform in other ways. For instance, Alan McGovern is actively developing Lunar Eclipse, an open-source Silverlight design tool for Linux and Mac OS X.
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Miguel de Icaza, Novell's lead Mono developer and vice president of developer platforms, revealed plans earlier this year to build Moonlight, an open-source Silverlight implementation for Linux that runs on top of Mono. Although de Icaza had initially planned to finish creating an early prototype by the end of the year, he and his team decided to shorten the timeline and attempt to create a working plugin in time for the MIX07 event in Paris in June. After an epic 20-day hackathon, during which a team of deeply committed Novell developers worked 12- to 16-hour days and produced tens of thousands of lines of code, a functioning Moonlight prototype was made available for download.
Microsoft now plans to work closely with Novell to ensure that Silverlight is fully supported on the Linux platform. In a blog entry, de Icaza discusses the scope of Microsoft's involvement in Novell's Silverlight development project. "We have had a cordial relationship with many developers at Microsoft for quite some time," de Icaza writes in his blog entry. "Today we are formalizing a collaboration between Microsoft and Novell with the explicit purpose of bringing Silverlight to Linux and do this in a fully supported way."
According to de Icaza, Microsoft will be providing Novell with access to Silverlight test suites to ensure compatibility with Microsoft's proprietary implementation along with additional documentation to help facilitate ongoing development and strong support for future versions, including the upcoming 1.1 release. Microsoft also plans to make binary video and audio codecs that are compatible with the open-source plug-in available for download to individual Moonlight users directly from the Microsoft web site. Since there are no intellectual property impediments limiting distribution of the plug-in itself, Novell plans to make Moonlight available to all Linux users—not just Novell enterprise customers—and will provide both RPM and DEB packages for inclusion in major Linux distributions as well as source code. Although Moonlight presently only supports Firefox on Linux, de Icaza and the Moonlight team hope to collaborate with developers to bring Moonlight support to other browsers and open-source operating systems.
The Mono development team is also working on additional projects that will augment Silverlight support on the Linux platform in other ways. For instance, Alan McGovern is actively developing Lunar Eclipse, an open-source Silverlight design tool for Linux and Mac OS X.
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