Microsoft Silverlight closes gap on Adobe Flash with Linux-based browser plugin

Remember that cool new competitor for Adobe’s Flash format that Microsoft was working on? It’s cool because it is designed as a cross-platform format, and it’s new because, well, it’s new. The Silverlight format has caused a bit of a stir in the Windows Mobile community due to the platform’s fancy-shmancy visual capabilities that rival the doesn’t-play-nice-with-WinMo Flash format.

Ars Technica is reporting that “After 20 days of ‘intense’ programming, Novell’s Mono development team has successfully produced a functioning prototype of Moonlight, an open-source Mono-based implementation of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Silverlight rich-media application development framework.” In other words, we have the first fully-functional prototype of a Silverlight implementation! Silverlight for Windows Mobile (and all other platforms, of course) is closing in on us – are you excited yet?

[Via: WM Experts]