Sunday, February 20, 2011

Moonlight 4 Preview - coming to Android?

Is Moonlight running to catch up with Silverlight or has it plans to overtake it? Version 4 has some interesting graphics features and it is even easier to port it to other platforms - including Android and OSX.
Microsoft may not be 100% sure of Silverlight but the Mono project (sponsored by Novell) is pushing ahead with its Linux implementation of Silverlight - Moonlight. The latest is version 4 and while this isn't keeping up with the Silverlight version numbers if promises to support all Silverlight 3 features and a lot of Silverlight 4 features. Of course Microsoft has promised a version 5 some time later in the year. Probably in an effort to keep up the Moonlight developers have opted to skip a final release of version 3 and are planning to move directly to version 4.

Read more: I Programmer