Novel Moonlight

Novel Moonlight is an open source implementation of the powerful Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems.

The goals are:

· To run Silverlight applications on Linux.
· To provide a Linux SDK to build Silverlight applications.
· To reuse the Silverlight engine we have built for desktop applications.

What is new in this release:

• This release should be considered alpha quality. There are various new subsystems in Silverlight 3 (e.g. pixel shaders, local messaging, the client http stack) which expose new and different attack vectors, and the implementations of these subsystems have not yet been exercised or audited.
• As such we recommend that you should only use this plugin on trusted sites (e.g. internal or well-known web sites) on non-production computers. This situation will gradually evolve over the beta releases.

What is new in version 2.0 Beta 2:

• ComboBox fixes involving the switching between the various item templates
• ContentControls will now use the ContentTemplate if ControlTemplate is null
• Various TemplateBinding fixes
• Layout fixes dealing with Grid, Shapes, and MediaElements.
• Animations (particularly when multiple animations target the same DO, as happens in VisualStates)
• TextBox event ordering/behavior
• Text layout and word-breaking fixes
• Font extents are now calculated using the same algorithm as silverlight, so text lines up even better
• various parser fixes for interesting cases found in the wild
• a lot of memory leak/corruption fixes
• lots of improvements in A11y from the UIA team

What is new in version 1.0 Final:

• Final release of Moonlight 1.0
• Support for the Microsoft Media Pack
• Quick and easy installation of media codecs
• Several media related bug fixes

Requirements:

• Firefox 1.0 - 3.0.*
• Gtk >= 2.0
• Alsa
• ffmpeg
• Mozilla NSPR
• Mozilla NSS
• Mozilla XPCOM
• Mono