Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Mon 17th Aug 2009 23:56 UTC
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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2007-06-21
It would indeed be nice if Google release free the On2 codecs from patents. I think it would give HTML5's video tag a lot more viability.
However, there would still be reason to use Flash and Silverlight, because the canvas isn't nearly as performant as Silverlight or Flash.
Nor does HTML5 have a nice widget toolkit for writing RIAs - which is the whole point of Silverlight (and likely Flash as well).
Just because all you use Flash for is YouTube doesn't mean video players are the only purpose for Flash and Silverlight :-)