Silverlight on Linux
NickName:lmsasu Ask DateTime:2008-12-14T18:56:05

Silverlight on Linux

did anyone try to view a Silverlight site on a Linux machine? afaik, there is something called mono on Linux which is a try to port .NET on Linux machines, but did one really try to use it? did it work?

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MrChrister 2008-12-14T11:07:41

Moonlight is the mono implementation of SilverLight. http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight \n\nIn an interview, they said Microsoft gave them the same test suite they use on Silverlight, so the implementation is pretty good I would suppose for being a version behind http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=157",


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