[PLUG-Devel] Questions about Silverlight/Moonlight?

[Ted Gould]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 12:52 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> The local Microsoft developer tools evangelist (nice guy, really)
> contacted me about the announcement of Silverlight 1.0 and full support
> for the Mono based port to Linux called Moonlight.  He offered to answer
> aggregated questions from this group.

Okay,  I'll shoot.

-- If I Moonlight exists, what's the point of Silverlight?  No,
seriously.  Mono runs on Win32, Moonlight will likely run on Win32, I
really don't see why anyone would want to run the close source version
of something that is 100% compatible with the open source version (which
MS has said Moonlight will be).

-- As the web becomes mobile, why should I care about this?  It seems
like another canvas widget, but without the general support.  Why is MS
reimplementing canvas (with some improvements, I admit) when extending
it is probably easier and more likely to get into distribution faster?
It seems like with SVG and Canvas I already have everything in
Silverlight... (minus video, but browsers can already do that)

-- I'm confused on the vector graphics support.  Is that through XAML?
I guess I never really saw that as a graphics format, so I'm a touch
confused.

-- "Downloadable binary CODEC" -- please explain to me why this isn't
the security flaw that ActiveX was.  Especially considering all the
Intel processor errors that the OpenBSD guys have found.  Are we going
to need install an "x86 ISA lint" into our firewalls to protect users?

That's my confusion for now :)  Alan, would it be possible for him to
just join the list an reply.  I always prefer discussion :)

		--Ted

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