3 months after releasing the last 1.0 edition of its Silverlight-to-Linux port, the Moonlight staff has posted a downloadable preview edition of their two.0 release.Novell Developer Platform Vice President and Mono Founder Miguel de Icaza blogged about availability with the Moonlight two.0 preview on May possibly 4:“This is really the release I have been looking for since Microsoft first introduced Silverlight 1.1 and ever since our 21-day hack-a-thon to bring Silverlight to Linux.“This is the ECMA VM running inside the browser and powering C# and any other CIL-compatible languages like Ruby, Python,
Windows 7 Home Premium Key, Boo and others. You can use Moonlight/Silverlight as a GUI (this is what most folks do) or you can use it as the engine to power your Python/Ruby scripting in the browser.”Moonlight team lead Chris Toshok blogged that the steps leading up to the first two.0 test build haven;t been easy:“We’ve had innumerable hurdles (in the form of technical,
Windows 7 Ultimate Product Key, legal, and process hiccups) to pass to get to this point. But now that we’ve finally ironed out the big issues, previews should start flowing along weekly on our way to the 2.0 release.”Microsoft, for its part, already has released a beta of Silverlight 3.0. Toshok said that the differences between Silverlight two.0 and three.0 “are much,
Office 2007 Professional Product Key, much smaller than the differences between 1.0 and two.0.” He noted that the Moonlight crew has been able to add support for some of Silverlight;s planned three.0 features to the Moonlight two.0 preview, including: Easing functions for animations,
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Cheap Windows 7 Professional, a safe way to allow users to save content from Silverlight applicationsMultiScaleImage (the heart of Deep zoom) API additionsMediaStreamSource now supports PCM audio data, RGBA and YV12 video data. “This along with other extensions makes it very easy to write codecs entirely in managed code, that you can then distribute with your xap,” Toshok said.WriteableBitmap Silverlight 3.0 is slated to ship before the end of calendar 2009. I;m not sure when Moonlight 2.0 — and the inevitable follow-on, Moonlight 3.0 — are slated for release.