| Microsoft switches on Silverlight |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 06 September 2007 | |
  
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"Silverlight will further accelerate the growth in rich interactive applications by giving developers and designers new options for delivering great experiences that span the Web, PC, phone and other devices." Silverlight is initially available for Windows (Internet Explorer, Firefox) and Mac OS X (Safari, Firefox), but Microsoft also announced a collaboration with Novell to take Silverlight to Linux via Mono, the open source equivalent of .NET. The result will be known as Moonlight. "Novell is excited to work with Microsoft to extend Silverlight beyond Windows and Macintosh to Linux with Moonlight, so Linux users everywhere can enhance their rich media and interactive experiences on the Web," said Miguel de Icaza, vice president of developer platforms and leader of the Mono project at Novell. In some ways, Silverlight can be seen as an alternative to Adobe's Flash technology, but one that is more familiar to conventional developers as it is built on .NET. Microsoft is also providing tools to make it easier for developers and designers to collaborate on a project. Silverlight has gained early support from broadcasters and other content providers, including AOL, Discovery Channel, Entertainment Tonight, Home Shopping NetworkMajor League Baseball, and World Wrestling Entertainment. "Using the Silverlight tool kit we have been able to take advantage of tremendous creative flexibility and create a compelling user environment that our previous video product had only begun to offer," said Ross Angert, WWE.com Creative Director. The Siiverlight plugin can be downloaded via silverlight.net. |
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