Mono Coders Hack Linux Silverlight in 21 Days

Etrigoth writes "After the recent announcement of Silverlight by Microsoft at their Mix event in Vegas, Miguel de Icaza galvanised his team of developers in the Mono group at Novell to create a Linux implementation, a so-called 'Moonlight'. Remarkably, they achieved this in 21 Days. Although they were first introduced to Silverlight at the Las Vegas Mix, de Icaza was invited by a representative of Microsoft France for a 10 minute demonstration at the Paris Re-Mix 07 keynote conference, should they have anything to show.
Joshua, a blogger for Microsoft has confirmed that the Mono team did not know anything about Silverlight 1.1 before its launch. Other members of this team have blogged about this incredible achievement, Moonlight hack-a-thon. It's worth noting from a developer perspective that Moonlight is not Mono and doesn't require Mono to work"

Comments

That's great!

[poot_rootbeer]

Wonderful news!

So what the heck is "Silverlight"?

Re:And the novelty is... ?

[jonnythan]

LOL

I was going to paste essentially the same thing, but realized it would be redundant.

"Linux developers copy Microsoft product in record time! The future is Linux!" ??

Youtube? O.o

[Spy der Mann]

The real reason that Flash is popular is because that is the standard that YouTube decided on

You gotta be kidding. Flash was INSANELY POPULAR even before Youtube. Take a look at online animations, like Strongbad. Youtube has only contributed to Flash's popularity, making it a de-facto standard if it wasn't already one.

Re:Wonderful

[Divebus]

The real reason that Flash is popular is because that is the standard that YouTube decided on.

Huh? Shortly after Gabo Mendoza showed everyone how to do Flash on the web it was big. That was 10 years ago, waaaaay before YouTube.

Here's a demo of what he's doing now. (see site root for blog)