For those who do not know, these are the names for the .NET implementation of Rich Internet Applications, but for the operating systems (Windows, Mac's and Linux respectively).
Silverlight is one of the recent goodies and it is spreading all over the internet as it enables a new and rich internet experiences to client browsers.
Basically it delivers the good looks as experienced before with flash objects, but with the power of .net framework in the background (Web Services, ASP.net), Yummy...
The Silverlight's stable version at the time of this article is 2 and Moonlight, its Linux brother is 1.
I confess, I have surrendered to this technologies since quite some sometime ago....
Nevertheless there is a gap between Silverlight and Moonlight, where as expected Moonlight features are a little bit behind in time then Silverlight's.
This becomes quite obvious as developers tend to use the latest versions of Silverlight to include all the new goodies in their gadgets, and who could blame them?
I have seen spread across the web several Silverlight implementations using the version 3 which his not release as stable yet.
However for a Linux user even after installing the stable version of Moonlight, it probably still not be able to experience most of the Silverlight gadgets out there...
In the mono website the Moonlight 2 will be released in next September, so a catch up can be expected, but again when Microsoft somewhere in the near future releases Silverlight 3 as stable the loop starts again...
But nevertheless I do congratulate the mono team for their efforts not only in Moonlight but in mono in general.
Cross-Platform applications, and in this particular case RIAS, just rule...
Over & out...
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