Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Besides, it's in Microsoft's best interest to move people away from Adobe Flash (which I understand to be the target competitor of Moonlight/Silverlight). If Microsoft can make it easier for Linux users to move to Silverlight, then that's one step closer to Microsoft's goal.
Unfortunately last time I tried Moonlight it didn't work with some silverlight sites, I think it was the ITV Catchup site that was still insisting that I didn't have silverlight installed.
Other silverlight sites were buggy and or slow (and I am talking worse than flash here) Overall the experience was somewhat worse than with flash.
The "other platform" support provided in Moonlight just seems to be lip service. Based on my experiences so far I can't imagine it will ever be a feature complete, properly debugged version for version equivalent of the windows build so why take it seriously ?
If Microsoft were then they would have built a platform independent open source Silverlight and had synchronous releases across all platforms rather than helping Novell re-implement what they have done in a separate project.