Moonlight 2.0 Moves to Beta Phase
Moonlight 2.0 is now feature-complete and they consider it ready to test against Silverlight 2.0 sites
Moonlight 2.0, which is open source software that puts Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application technology on Linux, was offered up as a beta release. Moonlight 2.0 is now feature-complete and they consider it ready to test against Silverlight 2.0 sites.
Users who have installed Moonlight 2.0 previously will be offered a chance next time they start Firefox to upgrade to the beta.
Moonlight trails Microsoft's Silverlight 3 in functionality. The API implemented by Moonlight 2.0 is a super-set of Microsoft Silverlight 2.0. Silverlight 3 was released last month.
Some Silverlight 3 APIs are included though, including MultiScanImage 3.0 API enhancements and SaveFileDialog. Moonlight 2.0 does support the Silverlight 3.0 media pipeline allowing developers to use C# code at different points in the media playback process.
In particular, this means that you can use Silverlight and Moonlight with the Mono project's OGG, Vorbisand Dirac codecs to play back media files that use the open codecs or to plug your own media codecs. Dirac backing remains a work in progress.
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