Star Moonlight 2.0 Released for All Your Beta Needs
Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Mon 17th Aug 2009 23:56 UTC
Internet & Networking The beta for Moonlight 2.0 is now available. It's considered feature complete and is ready to test against Silverlight 2.0-minded websites. Microsoft has already gone and released Silverlight 3.0, but the Moonlight team is pretty confident that users will generally be able to access most if not all web content while Silverlight 3.0 is still young. Moonlight will ask to update itself to the beta automatically in Firefox, but new users can also download the plugin.
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RE: Comment by kaiwai
by jstedfast on Tue 18th Aug 2009 12:52 UTC in reply to "Comment by kaiwai"
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What will be interesting is how Novell intends to pay for additional CODEC support in Moonlight 3.0 when it is ready; h264, aac, and a few other CODECs - from the sounds of things, it might get a little expensive.


The Moonlight 2.0 beta already has support for all of the codecs as well as hooks for codec plugins (like Vorbis, Theora and DIRAC).

Microsoft is paying for the licenses.

What I'd like to see are developer tools by Microsoft for Mac OS X and for Novell to create some developer tools of their own to run on Linux which can take advantage of Moonlight as well - it would be a terrible situation if Linux has Moonlight but all development ends up having to be done on a Windows workstation.


Microsoft are paying some third party to develop extensions to Eclipse for Silverlight development.

Novell will be adding support to MonoDevelop for Silverlight development (already started).

Edited 2009-08-18 12:55 UTC

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