Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Aug 2007 21:11 UTC, submitted by rx182
When Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie unveiled Silverlight at MIX07, he vowed that it would be a cross-platform technology. It appears as if the software giant is making good on that pledge: SD Times has learned that some of Microsoft's top developers have provided technical guidance for a Linux implementation of Silverlight.
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MS is always big on mindshare. The best silverlight tools will always be on windows, they sell the tools and sell the platform.
Just out of curiosity, have you actually seen silverlight?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsNRFKsGLbA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEUrQEj6Sd4&mode=related&search=
It completely destroys flash when it comes to rich application design in a web browser. JavaFX (and apollo from adobe, which you didnt mention) Are a similar idea, but for the desktop. Whether those take off or not is anyones guess, as it would be a new way off looking at desktop application development. But Silverlight is the first truely elegant solution I have seen to the web application problem. I would still use flash for animations, but that is about it. From rich application functionality to content delivery, Silverlight is on a whole other playing field.
Not to start a flame war or anything, but we were just arguing about this in another thread like, yesterday, so I wanted to point out that it is the MS/Novell deal that makes the port to linux a reality. Patent indemnification aside, the deal is what will allow linux users access to something which is quite likely to really take off in the next few years.