On 9/8/2010 3:07 PM, Angus Hedger wrote: > Flash might be one of the "evils" of the web, but it better than > moonlight as most silverlight stuff wont work in moonlight 2.2 where > as flash v10.1 works with pretty much everything (ignoring the total > lack of a good 64bit plug-in and the instability of nsplugins!), just > about.
I was disappointed that Silverlight didn't take off. The reason being, the GNU/Linux community really doesn't have a solid Flash alternative. Yeah there's Gnash and others, but they don't play well with a lot of the Flash-based sites. Browsing _sucked_ in GNU/Linux for years because of this. So, with Miguel and Mono, I was eager to see a solid Silverlight alternative in Moonlight. Mono was staying very up-to-date with the .NET ABI, and there is so much momentum behind Mono, it was hard to see Moonlight as failing. Then HTML5 started hitting the web, and well, even Microsoft started abandoning Silverlight for HTML5 with IE. I still think that because of Silverlight, the GNU/Linux community would have had a much better browsing experience through Moonlight and Mono than we currently have with Flash. But with HTML5 here and now a solid reality, just not wide-spread adoption, and now with hardware acceleration hitting the GNU/Linux browsers (Firefox/Iceweasel 4 and Chrome/Chromium 7), we _finally_ have browsers and browsing experiences that DON'T SUCK. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O
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