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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’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]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
