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Miguel Plans Silverlight on Mono & Linux by Years End

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the how-does-miguel-get-to-be-a-vp dept.

El Lobo writes "The Mono open-source project will create a Linux version of Silverlight by the end of year, said Miguel de Icaza, a Novell vice president and head of Mono. Asked about plans for Linux, Microsoft executives have been non-committal, saying that it will depend on demand. But de Icaza, who is attending Mix, was able to commit without hesitating."

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  1. One for the negative nancies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Web Projects Using Mono

            * Fiducial (http://fiducial.biz): Their new site uses Mono and ASP.NET.

            * Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org): WikiPedia uses Mono for its search facilities. The indexing and the actual searching is done by Mono-based applications.

            * GovTrack.Us (http://www.govtrack.us/)

            * GotMono.Net (http://www.gotmono.net)

            * Yakugo.com (http://www.yakugo.com) is an AJAX-based English-Japanese dictionary site that uses Mono.

            * [1] (http://www.saileventschedule.de) A web-based schedule for sailing events like racing and training.

    More can be found at:
    http://www.mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono#W ho_uses_Mono.3F

  2. Re:ffs by miguel · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's only a useful piece of technology if you want to abandon the UNIX programming environment and switch to one that's based on the Windows API and isolates you from all the rest of the UNIX tools you're used to.


    When was the last time that you used the "UNIX programming environment" in your web browser? Last I checked, you had to write in a subset that isoaltes you from the operating system and only allowed DOM access and Javascript.

    Flash, the other major tool for RIAs, does not give you access to *any* Unix facilities.

    You seem to be confused as to what Silverlight is.

    One of the nice things about Silverlight (as I pointed out in a blog entry a few weeks ago) is that you can actually generate Silverlight content with any Unix tool you want.

    You can easily generate it with PHP:

    header ("Content-Type: application/xaml");
    print "

    ";

    Or you can generate it with shell, perl, python or assembly language.

    The server side is probably as Unixy as anything else can get.