On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:54:07 -0600 Aaron Toponce <aaron.toponce@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Silverlight was always a lot better than flash on windows, I really haven’t found much silverlight stuff to try in moonlight, But I havent really had a lot of luck with the bits i have ran into, maybe due to lack of effort in my part. > Then HTML5 started hitting the web, and well, even Microsoft started > abandoning Silverlight for HTML5 with IE. I highly doubt Silverlight, .Net, and thus by extension moonlight and mono will die, for example MS's new phone OS is pretty much all Silverlight and .Net > 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. Lightspark [1] looks like it might be a nice (hardware accelerated) OSS flash plugin that uses gnash as a fallback for older stuff. I haven’t tried it myself, due to having spent so much time getting the 32bit flash plug-in finally working fully. (Oh, and it looks like lightspark wants to install pulseaudio, It can go shove that idea somewhere uncomfortable, I just finished fixing sound after the last time I tried to use PA!) > 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. I am looking forward to when the later Chrome 7 builds hit linux in a few weeks, we should have fully working <canvus> and hopefully 2D acceleration (At the moment, turning it all on results in the browser just outputting a black screen inside the ui), WebGL is already working (with command line switches). [1] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/lightspark ------ Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97
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