[PLUG-Devel] Questions about Silverlight/Moonlight?

[Alan Dayley]

Ted Gould wrote:
> 
> 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

Excellent questions, Ted.

I just fired and email inviting him to join the email list.  We'll see
where that goes.

Alan


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